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Complete Shostakovich Symphonies - Sladkovsky - Hi-Rez
[…] of tempo. The clarity of the instrumental playing revealing indicates belief in this music, and the allegro theme of victory emerges sincerely. The tempo of Sladkovsky’s Symphony No 13, is slow; in the great opening movement ‘Baby Yar’, the Moscow-based Masters of Choral Singing are outstanding, the bass soloist is deeply inside this music, and the brass accompaniment is tremendous. Pyotr Migunov doesn’t have the grit of Gromadsky, but he is a fine actor/singer, in the mould of Nesterenko who is on the Kitajenko recording. Sladkovsky’s tempo is exactly right, with the obligatory wit in ‘Humour’, while in the ‘Careers’, the mood is serene, evocative, and very moving. Kondrashin gave the excellent world premiere but uses the second version of the text in his 1967 Melodiya recording (with the excellent Artur Eizen), whereas both Sladkovsky and […]
2019-07-18 09:00:00
[…] Recommended recording:Symphony No. 8 Leningrad Philharmonic/MravinskyAlto ALC1150 The best recordings of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 Kirill Kondrashin (1914-81) When Mravinsky refused to conduct the Symphony No. 13, Kirill Kondrashin stepped in, though his recording has the sanitised text that Yevtushenko was forced to rewrite. Kondrashin’s performances of Shostakovich were famously harrowing, although all his Soviet recordings were withdrawn when he defected to the West in 1975. Recommended recording:Symphony No. 13 ‘Babi Yar’ Vitaly Gromadsky (bass); Yurlov Choir, Moscow Philharmonic/KondrashinPraga DSD350089 A guide to Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 Rudolf Barshai (1924-2010) Shostakovich admired Barshai, originally violist of the Borodin Quartet. On hearing his conducting of the ‘Eroica’ Symphony he is reported to have said, ‘We haven’t heard Beethoven like that since Klemperer.’ Barshai conducted the premiere of Symphony No. 14 in 1969. He founded the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, and made the famous arrangement of Shostakovich’s String Quartet […]
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