Suites, Poems, & Romances: The Orchestral Songs of Shostakovich

[snyprrr]

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

(This is not my area or expertise! ha!- Please feel free to have a go at it!)

I always liked that slow, minor key 'moischele'?- 'From Jewish Folk Poetry' (Haitink),... and I think there was one slow piece from the Haitink disc with the 14th.

But... please... the floor is yours...

[snyprrr]

awww. help me out here.

What's your favorite Shostakovich SONG?... or, are there any? What of all those Late pieces with bass?... or... but...

[Karl Henning]

What, a single song?  Too many fine examples!

The Op.46 Pushkin Romances, the Op.62 Verses on English Poets, the Op.91 Pushkin monologues, the Op.127 Blok Romances, the Op.143 Tsvetayeva Poems, the Op.145 Michelangelo Suite, the wicked Op.146 Capt Lebyadkin cycle . . . and those are just the obvious (to me) suspects, there is more!

[Karl Henning]

I do not mean to omit (seem to deny) the Op.79 . . . the fingers ran on . . . .

[snyprrr]

What, a single song?  Too many fine examples!

The Op.46 Pushkin Romances, the Op.62 Verses on English Poets, the Op.91 Pushkin monologues, the Op.127 Blok Romances, the Op.143 Tsvetayeva Poems, the Op.145 Michelangelo Suite, the wicked Op.146 Capt Lebyadkin cycle . . . and those are just the obvious (to me) suspects, there is more!

What might snyprrr want to hear?

Frankly, with people like Aleksashkin, I can never tell what note they're hitting. All I get is this big, woolly presence coming from the speaker- those vibratos! I just don't know if I can take a lot of  bass+piano. I can almost take that Dimitri H. disc of... is it Sviridov?... 'Russia Adrift'?... the one where he sings 'nice', but this is kind of 'eh' to me.

I don't know- I picture those pieces being somewhat heavy going.


Op.79- is the the 'Execution'? There's a piece I'm not too willing to go near... why?

[Karl Henning]

What might snyprrr want to hear?

At times I have applied my thought to that question, but seldom to any satisfactory result.

[Karl Henning]

Op.79- is the the 'Execution'? There's a piece I'm not too willing to go near... why?

If you mean The Execution of Stepan Razin, that is the Op.119 . . . and if you do not know it, yes, you ought, really you ought.

[kishnevi]

If you mean The Execution of Stepan Razin, that is the Op.119 . . . and if you do not know it, yes, you ought, really you ought.

Yes.  And I suspect the Naxos recording will meet even your aural standards.