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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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I understand this movement as a war machine. Probably not Hitlers (this is too fast to goose step to!), rather Stalins. The machine starts with fast quarter notes played marcatissimo by the strings. You can hear and feel the machine dragging (or perh...
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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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Well, indeed, this becomes an interesting thread. There are three good subjects I would like to squeeze out of it. One of them is about Shostakovich and his trumpet; I will address it here. The second one is about the definition of the word moron.The...
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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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