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- From: bobs@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Bob Sutton)
- Subject: Re: Suggested conductor/symphony?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.094422.28909@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- References: <168C6F5E5.RUSHING@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu> <1honeuINNt54@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 09:44:22 GMT
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- In article <1honeuINNt54@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> raeram@kittyhawk (Richard A. Muirden) writes:
- >RUSHING@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu writes:
-
- >>Another CD I have that I don't care for (although
- >>it is definitely not the music I don't care for
- >>just the production) is of the Eleventh by
- >>the USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra
- >>conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and recorded
- >>in 1983. I assumed that the Russians would do
- >>DS justice, but apparently not.
- >
- >the 11th, go for either James DePriest/Helsinki PO on
- >Delos (D/CD 3080) which is wonderful, the Haitink (on
- >a double CD set with the 6th and some overtures) or the
- >Jarvi on DG..
-
- Rozhdestvensky is a good conductor. Soviet/Russian conductors tend to
- conduct the music DS in a way that non-Soviet/Russian ones haven't been able
- to. I've always thought of him as a good Shostakovich conductor. But
- it is possible he was cramped for time and the recording might have been
- suffering from fidelity problems. I've never known a Melodiya recording that
- sounded particularly good fidelity-wise. Give him a second chance.
-
- >>Can anyone suggest conductors or orchestras (or
- >>specific recordings) of DS works? I would be
- >>very appreciative.
- >
- >My personal favourites are the cycle (or mostly complete
- >cycle) by Neeme Jarvi mostly on Chandos and a few on
- >DG, with Haitink also doing very well on Decca/London.
- >
- >Jarvi conducts the Scottish National Orchestra (now
- >Royal Scottish Orchestra) and the Gothenburg Symphony
- >Orchestra, while Haitink recordings are mainly with
- >the London Philharmonic and the Concergebow(sp?) Orch.
-
- Stokowski's 11th (if you can find it) is *very* good. I think it was the only
- one available for a long time. When was it recorded? 1959? IN any case
- it's certainly among the best. It's an ADD remastering so the CD will
- be cheap.
- --
- Bob Sutton Love, most bitterly and fiercely oppresses
- bobs@gnu.ai.mit.edu those who fight it than those who offer
- al876@cleveland.freenet.edu their servitude. -- Ovid, "Amores".
- rsutton@eis.calstate.edu
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