Originally posted by Petrushka
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Favourite one-off Shostakovich symphony recordings
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Originally posted by Bryn View Post
If happy with Used: Very Good, there's https://www.amazon.co.uk/Conducts-Sh...sr=1-4-catcorr"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
I searched for a CD copy of this set but couldn't find it. So, thanks - duly ordered!Last edited by Bryn; 31-07-23, 18:20.
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostAnother PhiladelphiaOrmandy LP I bought in the 1970s was his recording of the 4th but I've never bought it on CD. Is it still available?"Let me have my own way in exactly everything, and a sunnier and more pleasant creature does not exist." Thomas Carlyle
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Originally posted by Karafan View Post
It will doubtless be in the stereo Columbia megabox!
You have to scroll a long way down the contents though!
Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra - The Columbia Stereo Collection. Sony: 19439977432. Buy 88 CDs online. Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
Also available as part of this Japanese CD set:
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
It is!
You have to scroll a long way down the contents though!
Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra - The Columbia Stereo Collection. Sony: 19439977432. Buy 88 CDs online. Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
Also available as part of this Japanese CD set:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eugene-Ormandy-Conducts-Shostakovich-SICC-1590/dp/B0090S49NM/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3WL6MHF3S8GO&keywords=Ormandy+shos takovich&qid=1701180632&s=music&sprefix=ormandy+sh ostakovich%2Cpopular%2C94&sr=1-2
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The Cluytens 11, the Ančerl 10, and the London 1960 Mravinsky 8 are indeed stupendous in my book.
I don’t think the Maxim Shostakovich 15 has had a mention? Surreally recorded (the string polyrhythms in the first movement have a bizarre halo) and with a particular despondency I haven’t heard anyone else get anywhere near. There are LP copies still floating about, or you might get lucky and find the mixed Melodiya set from a few years ago at a non-hilarious price.
I was lucky to see a YouTube upload that purported to be an Ančerl 4! It disappeared soon after but I had already made a precautionary download. I guess I can’t be completely sure of its provenance but it sounds feasible and certainly isn’t one of the Kondrashins that’s been mislabelled, for example. Excellent it is too.
Also in that mixed Melodiya box was a Konstantin Ivanov 11. Fortunately on YouTube and I don’t think it’s going to disappear in a hurry.
About as driven as it gets. For a while I wondered if it was going to take a place alongside the Cluytens as an 11 I could actually listen to but the speed of the finale turned it cartoonish for me. Still well worth a listen, especially if unlike me you get on with the 11th in general.
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Oh and the Bernstein 7 on DG!
(oops, that was indeed mentioned upthread but I hereby second it.)
And I still have a soft spot for my first 8: Bournemouth/Barshai. Not a combination you see/hear often. Pity!
Are there any one-off versions of 2 and 3 worth mentioning apart from Morton Gould? I have a feeling they’re done very rarely indeed outside complete sets.
Last edited by oliver sudden; 15-02-24, 21:42.
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Cloughie mentioned Martinon's version of No 1; I have always enjoyed that, I've known it since it was released on Decca Eclipse. The coupling of the Suite from The Age of Gold is very enjoyable too - I love the saxophone in the second movement. Is there a recording of the complete ballet, or more extended excerpts? Mark Elder did a longer suite with the Hallé a few years back and it was very entertaining.
[One could put together a sporting programme (the Shostakovich is about a football team on tour) which also includes Honegger's Rugby and Debussy's Jeux (tennis). Is there a piece about cricket or golf? Apart from Satie's Sports et Divertissements...]
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