March 2025 - Russian Symphony March Madness!

[Karl Henning]

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[Karl Henning]

[ChamberNut]

Via: IDAGIO streaming

Borodin

Symphony No. 2 in B minor, "Heroic"

Ashkenazy
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

[ChamberNut]

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Hope you enjoyed. That second movement is something beautiful!

[Karl Henning]

Hope you enjoyed. That second movement is something beautiful!

Very nice!

[Karl Henning]

[Karl Henning]

[ChamberNut]

Today's symphony:

Via: Idagio Streaming

Arensky

Symphony No. 2 in A major, Op. 22

Svetlanov
USSR State Symphony Orchestra

Pretty enjoyable!

[Cato]

Today's symphony:

Via: Idagio Streaming

Arensky

Symphony No. 2 in A major, Op. 22

Svetlanov
USSR State Symphony Orchestra

Pretty enjoyable!

Many thanks for the recommendation!

Later today, I will try another Miaskovsky symphony:

[Cato]

What a great work!

Nosyrev is a new all-around fave!  This work shows him to be something of a Russian Karl Amadeus Hartmann, yet with roots in the "musical sarcasm" of Prokofiev.

I will be listening to other works of his tonight for a while!

[Cato]

What a great work!

Nosyrev is a new all-around fave!  This work shows him to be something of a Russian Karl Amadeus Hartmann, yet with roots in the "musical sarcasm" of Prokofiev.

I will be listening to other works of his tonight for a while!

I am listening to the Fourth Symphony of Mikhail Nosyrev!

It was composed a year before his death in 1981 at age 57: what a tragedy!  Another twenty or thirty years would have allowed him to produce even more masterpieces!

Here is a link to some articles, but beware: at first I tried to go to the website through a YouTube link, which brought up a warning from Firefox that if I clicked on the link, my computer would essentially become possessed by Pazuzu!

So I tried a different pathway via DuckDuckGo, and no problems: the link contains articles about Nosyrev's terrible sufferings under Communism, including a death sentence at age 19 for thought crimes in his diary.

http://www.nosyrev.com/articles

"WOW, Bob!"  Just WOW!  😇

[hopefullytrusting]

Rachmanioff's Symphony No. 3 (Trevino and the Euskadiko Orkestra):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N71Ss5hYRNI

[Mapman]

Shostakovich: Symphony #14
Vishnevskaya, Reshetin; Barshai: Moscow Chamber Orchestra

The recording has flaws (such as saturating during loud passages), but it's great to hear Vishnevskaya sing this work.

[ChamberNut]

Today's selection:

Via: Idagio streaming

Balakirev

Symphony No. 2 in D minor

Rozhdestvensky
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra

[Cato]

Some people would say that, if you have not heard Yevgeny Mravinsky conduct the last three Tchaikovsky symphonies (apparently he never recorded the first three, for whatever reason), you must hear them!

Therefore:

Also, allow me to push once again the symphonies of Mikhail Nosyrev and thanks to various members for mentioning him!

[hopefullytrusting]

Gunzenhauser with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra playing Anton Rubinstein's Symphony No. 2 (the "first" "Russian" symphony):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2e-yqTqSLk

[Cato]

Gunzenhauser with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra playing Anton Rubinstein's Symphony No. 2 (the "first" "Russian" symphony):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2e-yqTqSLk

What did you think of the Rubinstein symphony?  He was big in the 19th century!



Continuing the Nosyrev Festival! 

[Cato]

This version of Mravinsky conducting Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony is much better than the one offered earlier: the tape-hiss is not audible!

An exciting, crisp and crackling, highly recommended performance, full of nuances: it will not sound like a "warhorse" by any means!

[ChamberNut]

Via: Idagio streaming

First listen.

Paul Juon

Symphony in A major, Op. 23

Christof Escher
Moscow Symphony Orchestra

[relm1]

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My orchestra played this - it was a big blow (ending is full of loud brass) and the audience loved it.  I don't think any of the orchestra or audience had heard it before.