Under the Latvian Andris Nelsons, the Boston SO are exploring the music of Shostakovich for DG and their lithe, colourful sound is developing real power and brilliance. ‘Gosh, he has transformed the Boston Symphony in such a relatively short space of time,’ wrote Edward Seckerson, reviewing Nos 4 and 11, and he also praised the recording: ‘It is fabulously engineered: a very real sense of the famed Boston Symphony Hall acoustic in depth and perspective but with a startling clarity and immediacy, all that hyperactive percussion and Mahlerian brass really making its presence felt’.