Classical reviews – Faure’s ‘In paradisum’ and Shostakovich’s Symphony No 11, ‘The year 1905’

The pianist Louis Lortie highlights some underrated works by Fauré, while the BBC Philharmonic brings raw passion to Shostakovich’s majestic work. By Michael Church

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote Symphony No 11, ‘The year 1905’, as a seeming commemoration of the massacre of peasants who were petitioning Tsar Nicholas II for food (Getty)

In paradisum: A Fauré recital, Vol 2

Louis Lortie, piano

(Chandos 20149)