BaL 11.10.14 - Shostakovich: Symphony no. 10 in E minor

[BBMmk2]

HvK's first recording on DG,i s the one I have grown up with. Although Ido have Barshai, Haitink and Jansons.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This is regarded as one of the composer's finest works. But although I have recordings and the score, I still don't really "get it". Maybe a BaL discussion will help.

[slarty]

There is a another great interpretation by Karajan, but it can't be included in the BaL, however it is freely available to everyone -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUSVNq6jSiM

Karajan conducting the Dresden Staatskapelle at the Salzburg Festival 1976 in excellent stereo broadcast sound - worth a listen!

[Nick Armstrong]

I see that USSR State Symphony Orchestra/Svetlanov is on EA's list. I wish this was the Melodiya recording that appeared on an EMI LP as ASD2420. I've been wanting a CD issue for years but it never appears.

Oh I so agree. I've scanned the catalogues for 30 years hoping this comes out in a pristine CD remastering. I have a CD version prepared from LP by a mate, with clicks and pops inevitably... better than nothing... but Why oh Why doesn't someone do a proper job on it. Aren't Melodiya recordings now being refreshed and brought out anew by some company.

Because this was the second DSCH LP I ever bought, also in 1975 Pet... (the first having been the Ormandy 15). I played it over and over - the first movement of the Svetlanov performance of 10 has never been equalled I think (though that may be partly due to my familiarity) - he brings out a deep modulation later on in the movement which is like a tectonic shift and showed me how music can completely change one's mood and outlook on life, as I listened to it in a darkened room during difficult adolescent days..

Can't believe it's never been released on CD

[HighlandDougie]

The 1966 Svetlanov is available as a - legitimate - download in reasonable quality. If m' learned friend looks in his mail in the next few days, he might get a pleasant surprise ....

[Beef Oven!]

The 1966 Svetlanov is available as a - legitimate - download in reasonable quality. If m' learned friend looks in his mail in the next few days, he might get a pleasant surprise ....

Where from?

[HighlandDougie]

Have a look at

https://www.hmvdigital.com/releases/3573870

HMV! Who would have thunk it. I'd forgotten what a good performance it was (my copy of the LP disappeared aeons ago).

[Nick Armstrong]

Have a look at

https://www.hmvdigital.com/releases/3573870

HMV! Who would have thunk it. I'd forgotten what a good performance it was (my copy of the LP disappeared aeons ago).

WOW! HD.... you star!! And I prefer the download over a CD anyway!

Thank you so much!!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

And I prefer the download over a CD anyway!

Well, you would be able to tell the difference with a Melodiya recording.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Resolutions prompted by this thread:
1) Replay the Svetlanov LP from my ancient SLS Melodiya box set of the 15 symps;
2) Play a tatty Heliodor resissue of the Ancerl that I picked up for £1.25 and haven't yet spun (or even cleaned);
3) Kick belated lumps out of self for getting rid of the Ormandy LP, probably when I bought the said SLS box as a student! (Though IIRC the CBS LP sound was horribly thin and bass-light, as usual...)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Resolutions prompted by this thread:
1) Replay the Svetlanov LP from my ancient SLS Melodiya box set of the 15 symps;

That box is considered quite desirable in the 2nd hand LP market.

[LeMartinPecheur]

That box is considered quite desirable in the 2nd hand LP market.

on googling!
Should have looked after my box a bit better The discs are fine though...

[Nick Armstrong]

Well, you would be able to tell the difference with a Melodiya recording.

You can certainly tell the difference between the 320kbps HMV download (which I now have and have been listening to) and the previous home-made download from an LP - you can't hear the first few bars of strings for the LP pops and crackles!

So is the USSR/Svetlanov mentioned in your #1 list this 60s one or the later digital one recorded in Japan....? Because if the latter is also still available, perhaps a slight emendation to the list is desirable?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

So is the USSR/Svetlanov mentioned in your #1 list this 60s one or the later digital one recorded in Japan....? Because if the latter is also still available, perhaps a slight emendation to the list is desirable?

Neither of these. It's a RAH Prom on 21 August 1968.

I've amended the list in a vague fudge.

[Petrushka]

Have a look at

https://www.hmvdigital.com/releases/3573870

HMV! Who would have thunk it. I'd forgotten what a good performance it was (my copy of the LP disappeared aeons ago).

Woo hoo! Thanks HD. All I need now is a tutorial in how to download it

I bought this Svetlanov and the Karajan LP's on the same day (August 12 1975) in the week that Shostakovich died and strongly preferred the Svetlanov.