Recommendation for Shostakovich 5th Symphony?

[snyprrr]

So here's where I stand on the current go around:- not really in order-

Lenny59- I just the volume at which the record opens: every other account sounds like a stale fart in comparison. the Yee-Haw! Version Great Recording

Lenny79- the long black veil- not muffled, but curiously bassy and veiled like a funeral day. Great Performance 'live'

RostropovichDDG- I think someone died in the making of this performance... rough and ready... howling, wailing... no POWs... brutal... flawed/tragic

Haitink/Decca- only Haitink almost matches Lenny's opening volume- I is gots no real complaints about Haitink- Great Recording

Ashkenazy/Decca (RPO)-  my nostalgic choice Great Decca Sound, but "piffle" when compared to Lenny59



Mackerras/BBC-(RPO)- 'live' recording

Inbal "2" (Frankfurt)- mm... jury's not in yet- smooth, yet emotional- Great Denon Sound



I don't see the point in going too much farther here, though, Maxim, and Temikranov 5/6 sound enticing... maybe some others?...

[Ken B]

Lenny. Any version.  He owned a few pieces and this is one of them.

O recommend looking on youtube for Dudamel rehearsing this symphony, most interesting. But ... Lenny.

[vandermolen]

Oh, what a temptation you have set, Jeffrey;  I'm not, as you may know, an enthusiast for older recordings (all things being equal), but the notion of a recording from a time when the ink had not finished curing on the page . . . .

How odd that there is only Un bal from the Symphonie fantastique there.  Still, into the Wish List it goes!

It was a revelation to me Karl.

[vandermolen]

yea, you really pluck the short hairs there! mm

So, you like Previn? I've been curious


AND- I get soooooooo confused concerning Maxim's recording legacy-

1) there are old '70s recordings with LSO of 5... 10... mm... a few others? Violin Concerto... 15...

2) then there's the Collins series- 5... 10... 7?... 8?...

3) then there's a solitary RCA 5th?

4) then there's the Supraphon Box, which had 5, 13, 4, 6?,... and others? as single discs...

5)

6)


So, how many 5ths?...4?... 5?... You don't hear much about that RCA though- are the timings as long as the others?


I've always enjoyed Maxim's hair! DSCH always seemed to have Bed Head.

I have the Supraphon boxed set which I like although not played them all.

Also, this is good:
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[The new erato]

The Haitink 5 is out in a new edition:

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[vandermolen]

The Haitink 5 is out in a new edition:

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Thanks very much. Might get that as I liked the LP very much.

[snyprrr]

OZAWA/Decca

It's fairly new, and seems to be with the Japanese orchestra Ashkenazy used for his 13-14. I mean, Ozawa in the 5th--- it just flew in under the radar.

ANYONE???

[Mirror Image]

I'm surprised I haven't posted on this thread yet. Anyway, my vote goes to Bernstein's Live in Japan performance with the NY Philharmonic. I don't think I've heard a more heartfelt and deeply stirring performance than this one.

[snyprrr]

I'm surprised I haven't posted on this thread yet. Anyway, my vote goes to Bernstein's Live in Japan performance with the NY Philharmonic. I don't think I've heard a more heartfelt and deeply stirring performance than this one.

It has such a veiled sonority there, though, not that it's really a problem. Inbal/Frankfurt (NOT Vienna) sounds a lot like the Lenny79, very funereal. I somewhat prefer the scintillating frisson of Lenny59, sans caffeine ending. (though, of course, it is rousing!)



I just met a guy in the real world who is a Classical, and he wanted me to want MTT here--- and I wanted to give him a look. Yea--- apparently he's ONLY recommending MTT--- also for Mahler 2 (is he on the money here?). I can't possibly consider MTT in 5 here though--- I mean, come ON. Really??


Again- who ever heard of OZAWA/Decca???

[londonrich]

Actually, seeing a live MTT performance of the 5th opened up this work for me and made me love it - although I haven't heard his CD. My favourite version is Ancerl's.

[Karl Henning]

Actually, seeing a live MTT performance of the 5th opened up this work for me and made me love it - although I haven't heard his CD. My favourite version is Ancerl's.

I need to revisit that Ančerl recording, thanks for the nudge!

[Daverz]

I need to revisit that Ančerl recording, thanks for the nudge!

Which reminds me that there's a great recording in the Silvestri Icon box.  With the Vienna Philharmonic of all orechestras.

[chadfeldheimer]

I like the recording from Gennadi Rozhdestvensky conducting the USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra) on the Melodia Label. It comes together with the 7th. Symphony on a twofer. Actually I think all symphony recordings I know from from this series are great. Rozhdestvensky and company give the music a slightly poisend feel that, which I really like. The sound of the studio recording is close miked and very good. Unfortunately the availability for a new copy is not that good, but the prices for used copies seem to be quite low.

[Karl Henning]

Which reminds me that there's a great recording in the Silvestri Icon box.  With the Vienna Philharmonic of all orechestras.

Aye, that's a good 'un.

[snyprrr]

Aye, that's a good 'un.

Hey kids! There's an Ozawa on Decca!!

I mean, I 'm just saying, that IS interesting, no? Dosn't mean it has to be good, but

[Ken B]

Which reminds me that there's a great recording in the Silvestri Icon box.  With the Vienna Philharmonic of all orechestras.

Indeed. Just finished it. Terrific.

I need to seek out the Slava ... Never heard it, but it sounds interesting.

[vandermolen]

Thanks to this thread I've also just listened to Contantin Silvestri's recording which I have in a very old box 'Contantin Silvestri: The Collection' on the Disky label. I agree - it is an excellent, gripping performance and one of the very best. It is not my favourite of Shostakovich's symphonies but this performance had me gripped throughout.

[Turner]

Howard Mitchell´s old one on RCA is certainly one of the most unusual and feverish in the phrasing of the work.

https://www.amazon.com/Shostakovich-Symphony-National-Orchestra-Mitchell/dp/B0017JJQYY

[PerfectWagnerite]

Lots of good recordings of this work, I recommend this one:



For the ravishing beauty of the playing of the Viennese. The beautiful flute solo in the 3rd movement is worth it alone.

[vandermolen]

Lots of good recordings of this work, I recommend this one:



For the ravishing beauty of the playing of the Viennese. The beautiful flute solo in the 3rd movement is worth it alone.

Good to know as I have the boxed set including that recording.