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Hmmmmmmm, Jerry I do know Shostakovich very well, and it is not that I do not “get” him. I do “get “him unfortunately. I just I do not like many of his “thighs”, that might have4 to do with many things – my personal heritage and my “admiration” of ma...
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Hmmmmmmm, Jerry I do know Shostakovich very well, and it is not that I do not “get” him. I do “get “him unfortunately. I just I do not like many of his “thighs”, that might have4 to do with many things – my personal heritage and my “admiration” of ma...
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MRAVINSKY'S RECORDINGS (1938-1984) IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERThe data courtesy to Kenzo Amoh from Tokio
1938/03/27-4/3 Leningrad R M Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 OMel 06820/33 unknown
1938-1939 Leningrad R M Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 BMG(J) BVCX 80...
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I never was a big fan of this symphony, as I am not a big fan of Shostakovich generally, but this time it was truly remarkable performing event. My local FM WGBH 89.7 stated the new fiscal year funding campaign and compile a CD recorded “live” locall...
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[quote user="JANDL100"] I hadn't realised it was a contentious issue. [/quote]
O, yes. There are lot controversies about Shostakovich and the infamies “Testimony” – did not help as lot but rather spill oil into the fire. I do not tend to accuse Solo...
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[quote user="JANDL100"] I hadn't realised it was a contentious issue. [/quote]
O, yes. There are lot controversies about Shostakovich and the infamies “Testimony” – did not help as lot but rather spill oil into the fire. I do not tend to accuse Solo...
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I think 20 years back I bought a good rendition of Shostakovich preludes by Tatiana Nikolayeva. I remember how it was and where I was. I was not a huge fun of the preludes but I was hypnotized by a stunning illustration on the CD box: the chasing...
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As I told, I’m generally not a fan of the Shostakovich’s orchestral music. There is in Shostakovich’s “large music” a constant sense of vulgarity, peasant intellectualism, humiliation and a sense of blown-up meaningless artificial musicality that ver...
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The lucky Bostonians have a privilege to enjoy the WHRB Orgies. Who do not know that WHRB Orgies are continues FM broadcast of musical programs devoted to a single composer, player, singer, genre, or even a subject. This moth we have Robert Schu...
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I ordered the Bartok piano concertos 1,2 & 3 with Bronfman / Salonen and loved itGot their Rachmaninov piano concertos 2 & 3 recording today and loving it.Now, what's left in Salonen / Bronfman recordings seems to be Shostakovich pi...
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[quote user="Ronnie"]Just curious: what do you think of the Shostakovich piano concertos?[/quote]If you are interested about the Shostakovich concertos then you might try Bernstein playing it and conducting in at the same time, the Shostakovich playe...
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I never was a big fan of this symphony, as I am not a big fan of Shostakovich generally, but this time it was truly remarkable performing event. My local FM WGBH 89.7 stated the new fiscal year funding campaign and compile a CD recorded “live” locall...
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[quote user="JANDL100"]Yes, of course, there is much submission to the powers that were in many DSCH orchestral works - his life, and the lives of his family were literally at stake, after all. Stalin was not a nice or forgiving man.[/quote] Jerry, t...
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A couple hours ago WHRB stage own 4 days long, day and night Mstislav Rostropovich’s Orgy. The Broadcast is available on line – a phenomenal work listening… The program is more then exiting:
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in a; Sargent, Philharmo...
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I ordered the Bartok piano concertos 1,2 & 3 with Bronfman / Salonen and loved itGot their Rachmaninov piano concertos 2 & 3 recording today and loving it.Now, what's left in Salonen / Bronfman recordings seems to be Shostakovich pi...
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[quote user="Ronnie"]Just curious: what do you think of the Shostakovich piano concertos?[/quote]If you are interested about the Shostakovich concertos then you might try Bernstein playing it and conducting in at the same time, the Shostakovich playe...
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[quote user="steverino"]People are not required to like or dislike anything. I guess the question you raise would require some additional info to answer. Some people have Austro German music as their reference and therefore don't really like styles w...
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[quote user="JANDL100"] I have just listened to it - you are right - very very good. I will send you a recording Asahina made of the 5th in 1960. I think you will enjoy it very much as well. .... dare I say it is even better t...
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As I told, I’m generally not a fan of the Shostakovich’s orchestral music. There is in Shostakovich’s “large music” a constant sense of vulgarity, peasant intellectualism, humiliation and a sense of blown-up meaningless artificial musicality that ver...
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Yep, it was a very good concert. The Stravinsky's Scherzo was pretty good. The BSO sounded very nice and Petrenko left a good impressions. The Petrenko’s interview the Ron Della Chiesa’s introduction of Shostakovich was very interesting. If it was ...
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The lucky Bostonians have a privilege to enjoy the WHRB Orgies. Who do not know that WHRB Orgies are continues FM broadcast of musical programs devoted to a single composer, player, singer, genre, or even a subject. This moth we have Robert Schu...
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It was Shostakovich Ninth, it played a couple days back; it was the FM broadcast by the estimable MTT and San Francisco. I hardly call it as a symphony. Rather it is a compilation of musical irrationality, though written amazingly smart and rational....
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Category 95:
Best Engineered Album, Classical
(An Engineer's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.))Britten: Billy BuddNeil Hutchinson and Jonathan Stokes, engineers (Daniel Harding, Nathan Gunn...
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This is the first time I have heard of her performing in the U.S. I knew that she had occasionally played in Europe, and was involved with some project with Abbado in Berlin. But I thought that she only rarely toured outside Russia. I'm not sure wher...
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Nowadays, during the week of Shostakovich’s anniversary of 100th birthday, it has been a lot of Shostakovich’s music played here in there. With all my “issues” with Mahlerism-Shostakovich I still listen their music, what whatever reasons…. Today ther...
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In no particular order, just typing them in as I think of them ...Vaughan Williams (I am a Brit, after all! Much excellent music, some of it not very well known at all - the symphonies are well known of course (the 5th ranks high among 20...
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[quote user="Wojtek"]Following some "must have" isn't moronic just naive but not a bad way for starters (or just plain guys with interest in classical music but without ambition i.e ability and discipline, to become refined classical buff-snob) There...
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Today, at Mravinsky's birthday I publish a good article by Rob Barnett: the Classical Editor of the UK-based http://www.musicweb.uk.net. Rob gives a brief observation of the 20 CDs Melodia's box-set with Mravinsky's recordings.
MRAVINSKY Edition ...
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Rony, Shostakovich all-together is not a composer that I particularly care (beside his string quartets). Shostakovich did have a number of accidentally successful works but very few (as far as I concern). I really do not remember the wo...
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Well, I do not know what this conversation is all about. Anyhow, one point I would like to make – try to plug it into the context of the thread. It is very simple to run Sheffield’s Leinsdorf "Valkerie" and to “like” bass and dynamics. The REAL reall...
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