Your First Shostakovich Record

[Petrushka]

I bought the Symphony No 11 on LP in the Moscow PO/Kondrashin recording on November 21 1974 (the first time I played it coincided with the Birmingham pub bombings so I remember the date well).

I think that the BBC TV documentary on DSCH, Music from the Flames was broadcast at around that time which prompted the purchase. I recall feeling the sensation that I'd always known Shostakovich's music somehow and I fairly quickly bought the Symphony No 8 (LSO/Previn) and Symphony No 5 (USSR SO/ Maxim Shostakovich). I remember buying two recordings of the 10th (Karajan and Svetlanov) the same week that Shostakovich died.

I've absolutely no idea how I managed to afford all those LPs on the tiny salary I was getting in those days!

[Roslynmuse]

Symphony No 1 plus The Age of Gold Suite - Decca Eclipse - LSO/Martinon - borrowed from library 1980, bought a few years later.

[Bryn]

Cello Concerto No. 1 and Symphony No. 1 (Rostropovich/Philadelphia Orchestra/Ormandy).

[makropulos]

Symphony No. 5 - Ancerl, Czech PO, on Music for Pleasure, bought soon after hearing Previn conduct it live at the Proms. Next one after that was the Everest LP on Symphony No. 13 conducted by Kondrashin.

[Bryn]

Symphony No. 5 - Ancerl, Czech PO, on Music for Pleasure, bought soon after hearing Previn conduct it live at the Proms. Next one after that was the Everest LP on Symphony No. 13 conducted by Kondrashin.

I got that Ancerl on Supraphon, not long after getting the Cello Concerto/First Symphony LP already mentioned. Superb playing.

[Roehre]

Cello Concerto No. 1 and Symphony No. 1 (Rostropovich/Philadelphia Orchestra/Ormandy).

Makes two of us (likely summer 1977)

[Roehre]

I.....
I've absolutely no idea how I managed to afford all those LPs on the tiny salary I was getting in those days!

You GOT a salary, I was only a poor student in those days

[johnb]

The Shostakovich Piano Concertos, played by Eugene Liszt with Maxim Shostakovich conducting. I think I picked it up from a second hand shop, on spec, in my teens.

[Beef Oven!]

Symphonies 5, 10 & 15. Individual CDs. LSO, Maxim Shostakovich. About 25 years ago? I came late to Shostakovich.

[Bryn]

Makes two of us (likely summer 1977)

My purchase was a little earlier than that, 1964 or 5

[Nick Armstrong]

15. Ormandy/Philadephia. I think I was 16.

Legendary cover.

[Pabmusic]

Symphony 5 on CFP (old-style, with the white square on the label). But who conducted? Efrem Kurz? Paul Kletski? I just can't recall.

[jayne lee wilson]

I discovered DSCH (and so much else) thanks to a wondrously well-stocked Public record library (taking cues from R3), in 1973-4. I ransacked my way through all the Melodiya LPs of Kondrashin and M. Shostakovich - No.4 (Kondrashin) was especially important to me early on. But my first encounter with DSCH was my first ever live concert - the RLPO in NO.8 with Maxim Shostakovich conducting, in 9/1974. The first purchase was probably Karajan in No.10...

[richardfinegold]

Symphony No. 5 - Ancerl, Czech PO, on Music for Pleasure, bought soon after hearing Previn conduct it live at the Proms. Next one after that was the Everest LP on Symphony No. 13 conducted by Kondrashin.

That Ancerl lp was mine as well, on a different label here in the States.

[reinerfan]

The Ancerl Symphony No.5 was my first also, but on the original Supraphon label at 17/6.