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Post Subject: Shostakovich piano concertosPosted by Romy the Cat on: 1/30/2006
 Ronnie wrote: |
| Just curious: what do you think of the Shostakovich piano concertos? |
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If you are interested about the Shostakovich concertos then you might try Bernstein playing it and conducting in at the same time, the Shostakovich played himself as well as his son Maxim played it (it was writhen specificly for him), Maxim conducted for the Shostakovich's grandson who played the PC1 only (if I am not mistaken,) Maria Grinberg did it, Alexeev did the PC2. Generally I’m not a big Shostakovich piano concertos fan and I think that I have even some of the other performances that I never ever tried to listen. The Shostakovich piano concertos juts never touched me and I always took them ns a sequence of fortepiano sounds. The PC1 is completely dead, the PC 2 was very slightly more alive but still there are way under the level that I would consider “interesting”. If Medtner was Rachmaninoff without talent then Shostakovich’s piano concertos were the Medtner without melody… I am sure that there are people out there who would degree with me but what I said was what I feel. But perhaps I am just not tuned to his concertos
Rgs,
Romy the Cat
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