What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

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Shostakovich
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 3
MDR Rundfunk Chor,
Dresdner Philharmonie / Michael Sanderling
Recorded 2016/17 Lukaskirche & Kulturpalast, Dresden
Sony Classical

I must get round to hearing this cycle. I’ve been hearing some really good reports about this.

[Stanfordian]

‘Eternamente’ - Angela Gheorghiu
Arias from Mascagni, Donaudy, Puccini: Tosca, Boito,
Mascheroni, Refice, Ponchielli, Giordano, Leoncavallo, Puccini
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
PKF - Prague Philharmonia / Emmanuel Villaume
With guests Joseph Calleja (tenor); Richard Novak (bass)
Recorded 2016/17, Smetana Hall, Municipal House, Prague; Temple Studios, Malta
Warner Classics

Shostakovich
Symphony No. 4
Dresdner Philharmonie / Michael Sanderling
Recorded 2016 Lukaskirche, Dresden
Sony Classical

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Shostakovich
Suite from “Hamlet”, Op.32a, excerpts
Symphony No.8 in C minor, Op.65
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

Composers’ Collection Series
Percy Grainger
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Gustav Holst
North Texan Wind Symphony
Eugene Miglioro

[pastoralguy]

Dmitri Shostakovich. Violin Concerto No.1

Igor Oistrakh, violin.

The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maxim Shostakovich.

[pastoralguy]

Bach. Goldberg Variations

Jeremy Denk, piano

[Joseph K]

Mozart - Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581

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

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Shostakovich
Suite from “Hamlet”, Op.32a, excerpts
Symphony No.8 in C minor, Op.65
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

Composers’ Collection Series
Percy Grainger
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Gustav Holst
North Texan Wind Symphony
Eugene Miglioro

I’ve been enjoying Andris Nelsons’s cycle of works by Shostakovich ‘The Stalin Years’. A very good idea indeed to create. An important addition to the catalogue. Nelsons hasmost certainly brought the BSO back into the realms where they belong. I do hope DG record all the Symphonies.

[Bryn]

I’ve been enjoying Andris Nelsons’s cycle of works by Shostakovich ‘The Stalin Years’. A very good idea indeed to create. An important addition to the catalogue. Nelsons hasmost certainly brought the BSO back into the realms where they belong. I do hope DG record all the Symphonies.

Not "The Stalin Years", BBN, but "Under Stalin's Shadow". The 2nd and 3rd Symphonies, both composed during the Stalin era, are not included and, strangely, the issue with the 4th and 11th does not bear either legend. While the 11th was composed some 4 years after Stalin's death, the 4th is surely that most clearly composed "under Stalin's shadow".

[ahinton]

Not "The Stalin Years", BBN, but "Under Stalin's Shadow". The 2nd and 3rd Symphonies, both composed during the Stalin era, are not included and, strangely, the issue with the 4th and 11th does not bear either legend. While the 11th was composed some 4 years after Stalin's death, the 4th is surely that most clearly composed "under Stalin's shadow".

Indeed - and a very long shadow it was - more than a quarter century, indeed. I seem to recall that the original full score ms. "disappeared" and that a new one had to be created from the parts for the première at the end of 1961; given the number of scores thought lost that have turned up in Russia in the post-Soviet era (some by Roslavets in particular), I wonder if this one will ever resurface?...

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Not "The Stalin Years", BBN, but "Under Stalin's Shadow". The 2nd and 3rd Symphonies, both composed during the Stalin era, are not included and, strangely, the issue with the 4th and 11th does not bear either legend. While the 11th was composed some 4 years after Stalin's death, the 4th is surely that most clearly composed "under Stalin's shadow".

Yes. Very remiss of me. Thanks.

Sibelius
Finlandia, Op.26
Symphony No.1 in E minor, Op.39
Symphony No.3 in E major, Op.52
Andante Festivo, fir strings & timpani
Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.43
Two Pieces from The Kuolema, Op.41/1, ‘Valse Triste’
Symphony No.5 in Eb major, Op.52
Oslo Philharmonic, Mariss Jansons

[Stanfordian]

‘Ritorna Vincitor!’ – Veronika Dzhioeva Sings Favorite Arias
Verdi, Cilea, Giordano and Puccini opera arias
Veronika Dzhioeva (soprano)
Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra / Constantine Orbelian
Recorded 2018 Kaunas Philharmonic, Lithuania
Delos

Shostakovich
Symphony No. 7
Dresdner Philharmonie / Michael Sanderling
Recorded 2016 Lukaskirche, Dresden
Sony Classical

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Another good Shostakovich recording there Stan?

Now today would’ve been Maestro Claudio Abbado’s 86th birthday. So the rest of today’s listening will be recordings by him.

Schubert
Symphony No.8 in B minor D.759
Symphony No.5 in Bb major, D.485.
Weiner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Abbado born in 1933, Bbm - so he'd've been 86.

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Abbado born in 1933, Bbm - so he'd've been 86.

I’ll correct! My maths!

Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No.3 in C major, Op.26
Ravel
Piano Concerto in G Major.
Martha Argerich, (Piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A "birthday present" from 56 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HYFVd30CTE