Dmitri's Dacha

[Sergeant Rock]

1C. Really interested in #15 after listening to it again.  I have a few different accounts of Sanderling's godhead account with Cleveland (Erato).  The only disc I see of this is a single, and is OOP except for $17 ArkivCD i.e. CDR i.e. nope.  Just curious if there's another edition I am missing

It was available cheaply on Elatus. Seems to be oop now. Sorry.



Edit: Used copies available from various Amazons...but not cheaply.

Sarge

[jlaurson]

It was available cheaply on Elatus. Seems to be oop now. Sorry.

Edit: Used copies available from various Amazons...but not cheaply.
Sarge

The three least expensive used/3rd party options as of now are:

Erato, .com, ~$19 used & 3rd Party

Elatus, .com, ~$23 used

Erato, .de, ~EUR 22 used

[Dancing Divertimentian]

OT aside:
Do we have a dedicated thread for discussion of "orchestral songs" compositions and recordings? 

Octave, it's not exactly what you're asking for but this thread may come in handy: the 20th Century Choral thread.

[Karl Henning]

1A. I am especially interested in key recordings of symphonies 4, 7, 8, 10, and 15.  Plenty of suggestions is fine, but really just a couple max per symphony would be ideal.  So far I am working with the Barshai cycle, the Janson cycle very soon, and the Kondrashin possibly, semi-soon.

I've developed something of an obsession with the Fourth over the years (so prepare your grain of salt!)

Here's one post.

Oh, and consider Ančerl & the Czech Phil for the Op.93.

[Daverz]

I've been thinking of getting the Rostropovich symphony set just for the 14th alone.  Are any of the other performances in this box worthwhile?

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[Karl Henning]

I've been thinking of getting the Rostropovich symphony set just for the 14th alone.

Who are the singers?

[North Star]

Who are the singers?

From the Amazon review:

The singers are Vishnevskaya and Reshetin in the 14th

Interesting..

[Karl Henning]

Thanks!

[Karl Henning]

Really enjoying the Pacifica Quartet's cycle-in-progress. Impatient, in fact, for the final instalment.

Brian, any word, there?

[Sergeant Rock]

I've been thinking of getting the Rostropovich symphony set just for the 14th alone.  Are any of the other performances in this box worthwhile?

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (that NSO 5th one of my two favorites along with Lenny's live-in-Tokyo), 8, 9 and 14 are terrific and worth the price of the box. My blind spots are 7 and 10; Slava, like every other conductor, didn't convince me. I prefer his LSO Live 11. 6 and 15 I thought were duds.

Sarge

[Brahmsian]

For at least two or three years, I had Beethoven and Brahms as my absolute favourite co-composers.  Side-by-side, equal.

I am now safely adding *Shostakovich to that list, officially.    They now form ChamberNut's Triumvirate 

*It should be noted that this is the 4th straight month that Shostakovich has been my most listened to composer.  Just sayin'.  He's quite good! 

[Karl Henning]

Huzzah, Ray!

[Brahmsian]

Huzzah, Ray!

It's now BBS, for me! 

[Brian]

May release



Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60, "Leningrad"
1.         I. Allegretto 00:28:32
2.         II. Moderato (poco allegretto) 00:12:58
3.         III. Adagio 00:18:44
4.         IV. Allegro non troppo 00:19:01
      
Total Playing Time: 01:19:15

[Mirror Image]

May release



Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60, "Leningrad"
1.         I. Allegretto 00:28:32
2.         II. Moderato (poco allegretto) 00:12:58
3.         III. Adagio 00:18:44
4.         IV. Allegro non troppo 00:19:01
      
Total Playing Time: 01:19:15

About time!

[Octave]

Late thanks to Sarge, JFL, DD et al for additional answers to my Shost and "orchestral songs" questions; sorry I spaced out on thanking you earlier.

re: the SEVEN ROMANCES ON POEMS OF ALEXANDER BLOK, op. 127:

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Don't neglect the Blok Romances, Bruce!

The Blok Romances for soprano and piano trio are obligatory Shostakovich! Top-shelf music plus a Silver Age Russian poet.

What are the best recordings of this piece (Blok Romances)?  Earlier in the thread, there was a compliment for the one included in the Decca LADY MACBETH AND SONGS box (now apparently OOP and pretty expensive EDIT: no, I see that it's available at Arkiv for $40, so I wasn't looking hard enough...however, I hesitate to buy the thing if the MACBETH is not really up to snuff....), and the version therein was described as:

As for this box [mentioned above], since you already have 40% of it--I'd suggest looking for the first two CDs as individual items, and alternate versions of the songs with piano--although the 7 Romances on Poems of A. Blok (which has a vocalist and chamber ensemble) has a good performance on that CD.   It's the DFD that's the main stumbling block.

When Jeffrey says "chamber ensemble", is this a different version of the Blok Romances than for voice and piano trio?  (The Arkiv listing seems to say "no", if the Elisabeth Söderström recording is the only one in the box.)  Either way, in whatever version, I'd like to make sure I get a really good recording.  The only reason I'm not just snapping up the BAT/Warner shown at the top of the post is because I already have their smokin' 1974 recording of the Trio #2, and I guess I'd just as soon get the Blok pieces on a disc/set with songs or other pieces I haven't yet heard.  Unless of course that Warner disc is the way to go....

[jlaurson]

The Warner is fine, by all means, but the classic & standard (for a good reason in this case) is Vishnevskaya/Rostropovich et al. on EMI... the artists for whom (and upon whose request) the Romances were written.



I also very much like the release with Nadja Smirnova (Schoonderwoerd, Mourja, Hallynck; "Krokodil", Alpha)

Modern sound and very neat interpretation (in both senses of the word) comes from the final disc of the Florestan Trio with Susan Gritton (Hyperion)... certainly less authentic than Vishnevskaya, but decidedly more beautiful.

The others I know and have (Naef w/Eschenbach; Soederstrom/Fitzwilliams/Ashk.) do not seem to have left enough of an impression for comment off the top of my head (mustn't have been bad, then, at least--because that I would remember.  )

Vishnevskaya also sings in a live recording with Britten and Rostropovich at Aldeburgh (Decca) - but that I haven't heard.

And then there's a recording with Weinberg on the piano somewhere... and Oistrakh and Slava and Vishnevskaya. And I think I have it somewhere, too, in one of its many but obscure issues. Sound issues a-plenty, but a must for the Weinberg aficionado.

[Octave]

Many thanks, Jens.  I will cross my fingers for a real copy of the Vishnevskaya/EMI, and that Alpha looks really neat as well.

[jlaurson]

Many thanks, Jens.  I will cross my fingers for a real copy of the Vishnevskaya/EMI, and that Alpha looks really neat as well.

You should be easily able to track down a copy (real, if used). It has been out in at least five different versions on EMI, not just the GRAC version I linked to (the most recent, perhaps), but also GROC and in a Vishnevskaya-CD... (Galina Vishnevskaya: Songs & Opera Arias -- which is also out of print, I just realize)

Also: here's instance of the piece with Weinberg's pianism. (Or on RCA)

Her Lady Macbeth recording with her hubby (perhaps Rostropovich's greatest best conducting on record is a rightful classic. At least that's already been re-issued.

[Karl Henning]

The Blok Romances I listen to most frequently: Maria Aszodi and the Bartos Trio