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- From: apter@fid.morgan.com (Steve Apter)
- Subject: shostakovich/Mravinsky was Re: Shostakovich symphony recommendations
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.173727.10266@fid.morgan.com>
- Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY
- References: <1992Dec19.202445.18333@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Dec22.014154.25017@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:37:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.014154.25017@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- >jefrank@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jason E Frank) writes:
- >: I'm just beginning to explore Shostakovich's symphonic output.
- >: To date, I own symphonies #7 (Mata/Dallas) and #6 & #9 (Jansons/Oslo),
- >: and I'd like to know your thoughts on the following:
- >: 1. What are the "best" recordings of his 11th and 13th?
- >: 2. Which other of his symphonies would be most worth exploring
- >: (as a possible guideline, I like the 7th much more than the 6th and 9th)?
- >
- >Symphony No.4 (my own favourite) Moscow PO/Kondrashin, although I
- > don't know if this is still around.
- >Symphony No.5 Czech PO/Ancerl ditto. There is also a Mravinsky version
- > on Erato but it has had mixed reviews.
- >Symphony No.10 NYPO/Mitropoulos - almost dead heat for first
- > recording, electrifying. But top marks go to Leningrad
- > PO/Mravinsky on Erato; staggering performance, ferocious
- > scherzo and *very* ambivalent ending. Mravinsky gave the
- > premiere, as he did of several other DSCH symphonies.
- >Symphony No.11 Houston SO/Stokowski. The De Priest onm Delos is good,
- > but this still beats them all.
- >Symphony No.12 Haven't heard it yuet, but the Leningrad PO/Mravinsky
- > on Erato is apparently the only performance to make this sound
- > like music.
- >
- >--
- >Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- >Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
- >Phone: +1 604 370 4452
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- Shostakovich/Leningrad Symphony Orchestra/Mravinsky:
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- 5 4 April 84 Erato 2292 45752 2
- 10 3 March 76 Erato 2292 45753-2
- 12 30 April 84 Erato 2292 45754 2
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- 10 ? Saga SCD 9017
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- 15 3 June 76 Melodiya MCD 244 ("Mravinsky Legacy", Vol 5)
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- 8 ? March 82 Philips 422 442 2
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- 5 12 June 78 Japanese Victor VICC 40118-23 (6 disks)
- 6 25 February 65
- 7 26 February 53
- 8 2 June 47
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- 10 31 March 76
- 11 2 February 59
- 12 ? ? 1961
- 15 26 May 76
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