BaL 05.04.25 - Shostakovich: Symphony 10

[Barbirollians]

Sad that Shipway died in that car accident when at last he was mellowing and made that outstanding Eine Alpensinfonie recording.

[Wolfram]

Sad that Shipway died in that car accident when at last he was mellowing and made that outstanding Eine Alpensinfonie recording.

Yes indeed.

[Darloboy]

Previous BaL recommendations:

Geoffrey Norris (March 1980): LPO/Haitink + Bournemouth/Berglund as mid-price choice and LPO/Andrew Davis as bargain version

John Warrack (March 1989): USSR SO/Rozhdestvensky + Philharmonia/Rattle as LP also recommended

Edward Seckerson (Feb 2000): SNO/Järvi + NYPO/Mitropoulos as mid-price & historical choice

Stephen Johnson (Oct 2014) SNO/Järvi

[Barbirollians]

I see that the Ancerl is in the Eloquence box of his recordings and available as a Presto CD . The former box is not the cheapest.

[Pulcinella]

The website blurb has now appeared (I'll update the OP too).
'Next' still links to the Sunday programme though!


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Edward Seckerson chooses his favourite recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 from the many available versions.

Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 in E minor was premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky on 17 December 1953. In his memoirs, the composer revealed that he "wrote it right after Stalin's death and no one has yet guessed what the symphony is about. It's about Stalin and the Stalin years. The scherzo is a musical portrait of Stalin" - a startlingly brutal and terrifying movement in a 45-minute symphony which vividly encapsulates the tragedy, despair and violence of the Soviet regime under which Shostakovich lived.

[EnemyoftheStoat]

The website blurb has now appeared (I'll update the OP too).
'Next' still links to the Sunday programme though!


1500
Building a Library
Edward Seckerson chooses his favourite recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 from the many available versions.

Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 in E minor was premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky on 17 December 1953. In his memoirs, the composer revealed that he "wrote it right after Stalin's death and no one has yet guessed what the symphony is about. It's about Stalin and the Stalin years. The scherzo is a musical portrait of Stalin" - a startlingly brutal and terrifying movement in a 45-minute symphony which vividly encapsulates the tragedy, despair and violence of the Soviet regime under which Shostakovich lived.

Anybody know of a 45-minute recording of the piece? Looks like they've got somebody on work experience to write the blurb again.

[Barbirollians]

Interesting to see how well the terrific SNO/Jarvi does this time around . Hope ES doesn’t do the same volte face as Tom Service with Klemperer’s Bruckner 6 which he described as one of the five essential recordings in the Guardian and then panned on BAL.

[Goon525]

Well, Barbirollians has little to complain about. Järvi gets a very honourable second place, and the winning V Petrenko did sound very good indeed.

[Goon525]

Incidentally, how refreshing to have ES review a work with no offering by Lenny B. He didn’t even get a mention! And some quite reasonable discussion between ES and AMcG, the twofer format actually working for once.

[Retune]

Good episide and a good final choice, though I feel I also need one of the Soviet versions. And is that a mini Record Review Extra tomorrow at 8PM? After Easter, they are doing the same thing again on the 20th, but not the 27th, so maybe these are just occasional filler programmes.

[Barbirollians]

RLPO/Petrenko was also David Gutman’s choice in the Gramophone Collection in 2021.

ES’s second and third were his first and second in 2000. I have the Petrenko and it’s very good indeed but it has not quite shifted Jarvi for me . HvK got a quick dismissal but no discussion of Ancerl or Sanderling .

[oliver sudden]

Anybody know of a 45-minute recording of the piece? Looks like they've got somebody on work experience to write the blurb again.

Same goes for the old ‘Testimony quote repeated as direct quotation from composer’ trick!