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Finally I received the FALL OF BERLIN CD with the Shostakovich score.
I must say that I didn't expect a good performance from Adriano but I brought it because I love Shostakovich scores and there's was not other complete version available.
I was terrible wrong!!!.
The performance is oustanding and the conducting too.
The recording sound is similar to the last Morgan/Stromberg CD's.
I think this is a great score to begin the Shostakovich collection.
Bombastic!
Another great CD is KING LEAR
coducted by Jurowsky and
the suites conducted by Maxin Shostakovich
ZOYA and PIROGOV.
Do You know about other releases to recomend?
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well guys, I would like to thanks for the recomendations.
Of course the symphonies are a must on this matter.
I also have the orchestral scores of the symphonies 1,5,9 and 10 on Dover.
If you like to read music this are highly recommendable.
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Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 (The "Leningrad") is one of my all time favorite pieces of music. Bernard Haitink's recording with the Concertgebouw Orchestra is just fabulous. Very accessible, rousing, moving... highly recommended!
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Hello Howard!!!!
I didn't know You paled the clarinet.
I just played the Festive Overture las week
with the trombone!.
I still collecting ear for my lungs!
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Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 (The "Leningrad") is one of my all time favorite pieces of music. Bernard Haitink's recording with the Concertgebouw Orchestra is just fabulous. Very accessible, rousing, moving... highly recommended!
I also love this one but have to say that the Leonard Bernstein/Chicago Symphony live performance on DG compact disc is the most powerful music I've ever heard and blows away the recording mentioned above which I too favored until I heard Bernstein's.
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Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 (The "Leningrad") is one of my all time favorite pieces of music. Bernard Haitink's recording with the Concertgebouw Orchestra is just fabulous. Very accessible, rousing, moving... highly recommended!
I also love this one but have to say that the Leonard Bernstein/Chicago Symphony live performance on DG compact disc is the most powerful music I've ever heard and blows away the recording mentioned above which I too favored until I heard Bernstein's.
I tend to agree with you, Arthur. I find great pleasure is to be had from the Bernstein recording, which has also supplanted the Haitink in my affections. As much as I admire the Baroque structures of the 5th Symphony, it’s usually the 7th that I turn to for inspiration - perhaps because it sounds so much like film music! I suspect this is the reason why the symphony has been given such short shrift by critics over the years, who dismiss it with talk of “empty rhetoric” and “impoverished invention”. I believe the powerful Bernstein recording gives the lie to these pronouncements. The main problem, like with most of Shostakovich’s film scores, is that the music is immediate and accessible and all too often critics equate accessibility with banality.
As an interesting aside, I’m sure that most Shostakovich fans are familiar with the four-note cell D-Eb-C-B that appears in his symphonies (and in James Horner’s music); however, not everyone is aware that it’s derived from the composer’s initials in the German transliteration of Cyrillic (“D. Sch”) according to the labels of German musical notation!
Returning to film music, I wonder whether anyone else has the 2CD Shostakovich set from Laserlight/Delta? It’s entitled “Best of Motion Picture Scores: Dmitri Shostakovich”. (Catalogue no. 14 841/14 842) and was released in 2000. It may sound particularly unappealing, but rest assured that the recordings by the Berlin Radio Orchestra and the German Symphony Orchestra are not to be sneezed at. (In fact, I prefer The Gadfly in this incarnation to the Naxos recording)
Listening to the music on this well-chosen compilation, one gets a very clear picture of how sensitive and even feverishly excitable a temperament Shostakovich had - something that doesn’t always come across in his monolithic concert music. Highly Recommended!
The music on this ninety-minute set comes from the following films:
The Gadfly
Golden Mountains
Trilogy About Maxim
The Fall of Berlin
Odna
Hamlet
King Lear
Soja
The New Babylon
Five Days – Five Nights
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Very disappointed in that but this is a great CD if you can find it.