CD reviews: Two lyrical recordings of classic 20th-century scores

Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow. Symphony No. 10. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons. Deutsche Grammophon. Shostakovich's legend has become fact -- at least for Deutsche Grammophon. The label has given Andris Nelsons's superb new recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 the misleading title "Under Stalin's Shadow," evoking the heroic image of Shostakovich as the dissident composer, struggling against the oppression of the Soviet regime. Yet scholarship has essentially debunked the ...