Re: Shostakovich's 8th symphony?


Michael Schaffer wrote:
jrsnfld@xxxxxxx wrote:
alanwatkinsuk@xxxxxxx wrote:
Charles wrote:
Any recommendations for recordings of Shostakovich's 8th symphony?
Thank you.

Charles

Ploughing (plowing?) a very lonely furrow live and on record I would go
for Ladislav Slovak but there again the percussion occasionally plough
(plow) lonely furrows in all 15.

Cannot say about any recording he may have made but based on (two)
personal live experiences I don't think the composers son has the
slightest idea about it.

Kind regards,
Alan M. Watkins

Isn't Maxim's recording on Collins? I'm not sure I've heard it.

No one mentioned Jansons, Litton, and Levi, all three quite good in
their separate ways.

I have Jansons. The performance is well prepared and musically
interesting, but the PSO simply doesn't have enough sound and impact
for this music.

What do you think is the cause of that? Are they too small an
orchestra? Does their recording venue have anything to do with it? The
engineers of the recordings there?

I used to think the same of Oslo...they didn't have enough sound to
carry the Berlioz I heard them perform once, under Jansons. But I
didn't have that problem with Pittsburgh when I heard them under
Maazel, in the same hall.

--Jeff

--Jeff

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