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Essential Shostakovich Discs
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Originally posted by EnemyoftheStoat View PostIt certainly is! Not sure when I'll actually finish listening to all of it but nibbling away...
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In case it helps:
Originally posted by cloughie View PostIs that the one that was coupled with Borodin's SQ2 on Ace of Diamonds?Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostI don't know. If we are going to discuss authenticity there may be several versions by the 'Borodin' quartet, which itself may not always be/have been the quartet which Shostakovich knew and heard in the 1960s (I'll have to check ...). According to the playlist it might have been a Decca recording, but what the recording date was I don't know. There is a partial set of quartets by the Borodin Quartet on Virgin - under a tenner from Amazon.
See this about the history of the Borodin Quartet - http://borodinquartet.com/legacy/
Like a flowing river, it isn't/hasn't always been the same.
If you have the Ace of Diamonds version it may be the quartet which Shostakovich knew, being from the approximate period. I may have an LP somewhere. Newer remakes by the nominally the same quartet may have less of a historical claim to links to the composer.
17 September 1962 at Decca's West Hampstead Studio 3
Borodin String Quartet: Rostislav Dubinsky, Yaroslav Alexandrov, Dmitri Shebalin, Valentin Berlinsky
BORODIN String Quartet No.2 in D
SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No.8 in C minor Op.110
LPs issued Feb63 LXT6036 mono and SXL6036 stereo; AofD issue in 1967 on ADD/SDD 156 not listed but probably the same matrices as the LXT/SXL
CD 1990 425 541 2DM but there is a 2013 Eloquence reissue on ELQ 480 742 4 with a filler of Tchaikovsky No1 by the Gabrieli from May 1976
Last edited by Gordon; 18-02-17, 13:10.
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostFrayed knot, just a name credit for the various re-mastering engineers, different from those credited in the Melodiya Kondrashin set. The Melodiya Mravinsky set re-masterimg was credited to "NoNoise", but those in the new box are credited to specific engineers, and I doubt the eclipsed NoNoise had anything to do with them.
As already mentioned by Bryn, the box is a small triumph in its own right. Very glad to be listening again to Maxim's 15th - again rather better than the LP, although it always was a very good recording. Maybe the Svetlanov "Leningrad" will provide my eureka moment for a symphony which I have so far found unpalatable. The Haitink set has also just arrived, so no Bruckner until I have listened to both sets.
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Out of curiosity I went into my garage where ancient, no longer played LPs are stored, just to check on the Shostakovich discs I collected when I was in my twenties, 40 years ago. Only four:
Kondrashin/Moscow Phil- Symph 3 and 9
M. Shostakovich/Moscow Radio - 15 (Both these are rather poor quality East German Eterna/Melodiya issues, probably bought in East Berlin)
Ancerl/Czech Phil - Symph 5 (EMI Music for Pleasure) - very good as I recall
Andrew Davis/LPO - Symph 10 (1975 classics for pleasure - 79p price ticket still attached). Not sure if this counts as "essential" but it's pretty good and available
I didn't buy any more symphony recordings until I acquired the Haitink Complete box on CD. It might be nice to get digital versions of those LPs for old times' sake.
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostOut of curiosity I went into my garage where ancient, no longer played LPs are stored, just to check on the Shostakovich discs I collected when I was in my twenties, 40 years ago. Only four:
Kondrashin/Moscow Phil- Symph 3 and 9
M. Shostakovich/Moscow Radio - 15 (Both these are rather poor quality East German Eterna/Melodiya issues, probably bought in East Berlin)
Ancerl/Czech Phil - Symph 5 (EMI Music for Pleasure) - very good as I recall
Andrew Davies/LPO - Symph 10 (1975 classics for pleasure - 79p price ticket still attached). Not sure if this counts as "essential" but it's pretty good and available
I didn't buy any more symphony recordings until I acquired the Haitink Complete box on CD. It might be nice to get digital versions of those LPs for old times' sake.
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Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostI spoke to Sir Andrew Davis about that DSCH 10 lp and he told me it was his first ever experience of recording. He also recollected that it was a bucketing wet Monday morning!
Surely he was on some recordings made at King's (their Howells Coll Reg under Willcocks, for example), before he launched his conducting career?
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostReally?
Surely he was on some recordings made at King's (their Howells Coll Reg under Willcocks, for example), before he launched his conducting career?
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostReally?
Surely he was on some recordings made at King's (their Howells Coll Reg under Willcocks, for example), before he launched his conducting career?
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Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostI spoke to Sir Andrew Davis about that DSCH 10 lp and he told me it was his first ever experience of recording. He also recollected that it was a bucketing wet Monday morning!
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Originally posted by makropulos View PostIt wasn't his first recording as a conductor. CFP issued "Crown Imperial" - a disc of Parry, Walton, Handel, Elgar et al in May 1972 (recorded in the RAH on Jan 4th-5th 1972). The Shostakovich was made in Barking Town Hall on 30th April and 1st May 1974 (which were - incidentally - a Tuesday and Wednesday).
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post- a sort-of Last Night of the Proms, mostly conducted by Davies (with a photo on the back of the sleeve of a rather gaunt young man frantically waving his arms) but with Arthur Bliss conducting his own (rather jazzy) arrangement of the National Anthem starting proceedings - well, if you began on Side One. I'd completely forgotten that Zadok was included.
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Originally posted by makropulos View PostYes! I love that Bliss arrangement of the Nat. Anthem - not sure if it's ever been reissued on CD (though I think other bits of this record have been).
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Last night I began putting together my summer holiday SD card for portable music. DSCH 15 has been on my turntable a fair bit following an interesting Prom a couple of years ago that got a fair bit of discussion on here (I listened on Radio). Having given a fair bit of time to Haitink, Gergiev, Petrenko, Barshai and Maxim Shostakovich, I’m convinced that the latter on Collins (the first 15 I bought back in ’93 when I was well on the way to discovering the wider classical music repertoire) is the best performance of all. It’s very broad, but the sheer tension is incomparable.
I’ve never heard Maxim’s first recording, available only on LP (?) but apparently it’s the greatest of them all.
Shostakovich's final symphony asks profound and disquieting questions and offers only ambiguities in return, writes Tom Service
Maxim and DSCH during rehearsals for symphony #15
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