Lp, album, club world record club, world record club r03129, r. Complete symphonies kirill kondrashin, moscow philharmonic orchestra on allmusic 2008. Download torrent shostakovich fast and easy torrent search. Shostakovich, kyrill kondrashin, staatskapelle dresden. Kirovs murder launched a torrent of destruction waves of arrests that. This record probably brings the listener as close as humanly possible to the original 1961 concert. Over the decades those varied descriptions have been ascribed to this puzzling and quite individual work. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. Yet the fourth symphony lay dormant, unperformed, for 25 years after its completion.
Buy shostakovich symphony no 4 by dmitry shostakovich, kyrill kondrashin, staatskapelle dresden from amazons classical music store. To assume that shostakovich always composed either for or against the. Soviet officialdom praised it as a fine example of socialist realism and awarded the composer a lenin prize. Individually there are other discs to supplement kondrashin. Completed in 1936, but only premiered in 1961 because shostakovich fell out of favour with the party, its a fertile seedbed for all that was. He recorded the 11th twice once just days after the symphonys premiere actually conducted by natan rakhlin, in november 1957 another live performance, like most of mravinskys recordings, but poorly recorded and, surprisingly, not all that well played and a studio performance in february 1959.
Ancerl in 10 dg, berglund in 7 and 11 emi, sanderling on berlin classics, mitropoulos sony, ormandy in 4 and 10 sony, mravinsky in 6 and 9 bmg, maxim shostakovich in 5 and 15. Wigglesworths long view of where the symphony is heading is a crucial component of this interpretation, but it also embraces a kaleidoscopic variety of character, be it the icy funeral march at the start of the finale. Formerly available on le chant du monde and now reissued on. This kondrashin recording of shostakovichs fourth dates back to 1962, just one year after kondrashin brought this masterpiece to the concert hall with this same orchestra. Cd11 recorded 1974 14, 1967 57 barcode and other identifiers barcode. Shostakovichs fifteen symphonies fit nicely into three equal groups.
The only soviet composer to crack this chart was khachaturyan. Though the composers favourite interpreter for many years, his refusal to conduct. The frenetic version from kyrill kondrashin, the first to record all 15. Hardasnails fortitude is a feature of the symphony no. Among the finest versions i know are those of kirill kondrashin in moscow and. Lso0535 shostakovich symphony no 11 the year 1908 albums. Shostakovitch, moscow philharmonic, kiril kondrashin. Listen to your favorite songs from shostakovich symphony no. During this period he premiered shostakovichs symphony no. If his name isnt the first listeners associate with the composer these days that has more to do with the spotty availability of his recordings than with their intrinsic quality. The best recordings of shostakovichs symphony no 10 gramophone.
Download torrent dmitri shostakovich fast and easy. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. What has partly clouded the issue regarding the 4 th symphony was its delayed. This box of 11 cds contains all kondrashins studio recordings for melodiya from 1965 to 1975 on shostakovich. Interpretively this is the same conception, almost down to the second, as you can hear in kondrashins 1962. Mariss jansons emi shostakovich symphony cycle took nearly two decades to. Complete symphonies, an album by dmitri shostakovich, moscow philharmonic orchestra, kirill kondrashin on spotify. Besides the complete symphony cycle, it also includes. This is the middle ground between the sheer hysteria evoked by kondrashin and. They play the living daylights out of the fourth symphony, taking nelsons quick tempos in stride, and offering seatofyourpants excitement in the first movements insane central. Unlike his bruckner, andris nelsons seems to have real feeling for shostakovich, and in the boston symphony he has far and away the best orchestra for the job. Although the first performances of symphonies nos 14 and 15 were given by barshai and maxim shostakovich respectively, kondrashin continued to be a dedicated interpreter, recording probably the first complete cycle of the symphonies on lp for melodiya during the composers lifetime. For kondrashins views on shostakovichs symphonies, see the accompanying statement. Kondrashin, like mravinsky, was famous for his intensive pianissimos and the gradations of his crescendos and this is perhaps the finest testament to them, especially in the twilight zones of the imploding first movement, the shadowworld of the finales offkilter ballet divertissement and the tragic snuffingout of the relentless c minor.
The recording technology isnt state of the art but the music is all here. In shostakovichs soviet union, darkened by the shadow of stalin, music was essential. This stunning symphony is now recognized as one of the composers boldest and most brilliant. Nelsons excellent boston shostakovich cycle continues. Conductor kirill kondrashin led the premiere of the orchestral version on 30 december 1961 with the moscow. Dmitri shostakovich, kirill kondrashin, alexander yurlov. Dmitri shostakovich 19061975 complete symphonies cd 1 symphony no. The image of shostakovich and the relationships surrounding it in the west during. Kondrashins performances of shostakovich were famously. Indeed, shostakovich was in kondrashins concert and was impressed enough to invite kondrashin to lead the premiere performance of his symphony no. He was the artistic director of the moscow philharmonic orchestra from 1960 to 1975 and premiered shostakovichs symphony no. The shostakovich 4 th symphony is one of those unique works in musical literature. Bbc proms 2018, prom 4 shostakovich leningrad symphony 320kbps.
Shostakovich, kyrill kondrashin, staatskapelle dresden symphonie 4 music. Listen to your favorite songs from shostakovich, d symphony no. Dimiti shostakovich crafted one of the most impressive bodies of symphonic works in the twentieth century, and his fifteen symphonies are among some of the most revered and sometimes misunderstood masterworks in classical music. He gets occasional listening from me, but isnt someone i spend a lot of time with. Dmitri shostakovich dmitri shostakovich string quartets nos 4, 5 manhattan string quartet. Shostakovichs eleventh symphony, written in 1957 to mark the 40th anniversary of the october revolution, had a mixed reception. In january 1936, halfway through this period, pravdaunder direct orders from joseph stalin published an editorial muddle instead of music that denounced the composer and targeted his opera lady macbeth of mtsensk. I like some of kondrashins performances over others ive. The symphonies complete royal liverpool philharmonic orch. Tr24of kirill kondrashin moscow philharmonic orchestra sergei prokofiev, dmitri shostakovich 19652011 classical. Moscow philharmonic orchestra kirill kondrashin recorded in 196162, 1964 65, 1967, 197275. Complete symphonies kirill kondrashin, moscow philharmonic orchestra on allmusic 2006. Shostakovich symphony n4 amsterdam kondrashin live. Shostakovitch, the moscow philharmonic orchestra conducted by kiril kondrashin symphony no.
Shostakovich symphonies kondrashin mel cd 10 01065 dc. Dmitri dmitriyevich shostakovich 19061975 the 15 symphonies new mastering. Kirill petrovich kondrashin was a soviet and russian conductor. Its first performance was on november 21, 1937, in leningrad by the leningrad philharmonic orchestra under yevgeny mravinsky. Dmitri shostakovich violin concerto no 1 bpo hilary hahn 2000 pro dvd pal. Shostakovich edition brilliant classics 51 cds opusklassiek. For a complete single conductororchestra survey kondrashin and aulos set the gold standard. Shostakovich the symphonies kondrashin aulos classics. Even if unsure what the phrase means, we do know that boults moeran comes into that category, and so too does kondrashins shostakovich.
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