Andris Nelsons is the Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and new Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. With both appointments, and in leading a pioneering alliance between these two esteemed institutions, he is firmly underlined as one of the most renowned, exciting and innovative conductors on the international scene today. Nelsons and the BSO continue the acclaimed cycle with the 'Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7', complemented by two other works by Shostakovich, the 'Suite From the Incidental Music to King Lear, Op. 58a' and the 'Festive Overture, Op. 96'. The goal is a complete Shostakovich cycle on Deutsche Grammophon with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

CD 1:

1. I. Largo
2. II. Allegro
3. III. Presto
4. Introduction and Ballad of Cordelia
5. Fanfare No. 1
6. Return from the Hunt
7. Fanfare No. 4
8. Approach of the Storm
9. Scene On the Steppe
10. Fanfare No. 2
11. The Blinding of Gloucester
12. The Military Camp
13. Fanfare No. 5
14. March
15. Festive Overture, Op. 96

CD 2:

1. Allegretto
2. Moderato (Poco Allegretto)
3. Adagio
4. Allegro Non Troppo