Shostakovich - 5th Symphony

Shostakovich - 7th Symphony (“Leningrad”)

Shostakovich - 10th Symphony

Prokofiev Symphony 3 ("The Fiery Angel”)

Wagner (I don’t like the first recording as much as the James Levine one I played in class!). At the bottom, I’ve included a more deeply felt (“un-ironic”) passage - Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March.

By the way, since I sent a Bernstein interpretation I was less fond of, I thought I’d be fair and post a good one… the finale from Mahler’s 2nd Symphony (“Resurrection”)… and footage of Bernstein shaking Shostakovich’s hand when he conducted in Moscow