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Ono Kazushi

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Razor-sharp characterisation and a dazzling, festive brillianceKazushi Ono and the Barcelona Symphony in Shostakovich for a new generationA live recording with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, of which Kazushi Ono has been Music Director since 2015. The sound quality is excellent and conveys the fine chemistry and considerable potential of this partnership in full measure. This is a Shostakovich of bright, transparent colour, with vivid irony and a deft ability to read between the lines and then between those lines again. As Mitsutoshi Kyo notes in his booklet essay, the performance suggests the world of opera – a staged work with the direction fully worked out. Even the second movement, which can easily come adrift, is played with the overall balance in mind, and the sense of structure is superb. The festive brilliance of the finale is thrilling.Because Ono is so thoroughly at home in Shostako