Tag: Dmitri Shostakovich
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Leopold Stokowski: Complete Everest & Vanguard Masters
Leopold Stokowski was not only one of the greatest conductors of the twentieth century but a celebrity of international stature. He rose to fame as the music director of the PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA; when he left the directorship in 1940, he would spend the next four decades as a globetrotting guest conductor and frequent visitor to…
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4, Music for Hamlet
Two bold scores by Dmitri Shostakovich are offered together for the first time. The symphonic suite of music written for Nikolai Akimov’s avant-garde staging of Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a reflection of the producer’s outlandish “funhouse mirror” version of the tragic tale. Shostakovich himself suppressed his Fourth Symphony for nearly three decades in the wake of…
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Great Musicians of Ukraine
Ukraine has been the birthplace of some of the world’s greatest musicians. Parnassus Records brings together a program of towering Ukrainian talents, curated by Leslie Gerber and drawing on many rare recordings, featuring artists not known outside of specialist music collectors and scholars, others very well-known – but not properly remembered as Ukrainian. Support for…
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Shostakovich, Koval & Sviridov: Choral Works
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Cello Masterworks: Shostakovich, Schubert, Haydn
Parnassus is pleased to return to international availability early stereo recordings of Daniil Shafran, including the Haydn Cello Concerto conducted by Neeme Järvi, one of the most recorded conductors of all time, in one of his earliest commercial recordings, transferred from a pristine analog source by Paul Arden-Taylor. Also included are Shafran’s American recordings of…
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Nostalgic Russia
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The Young Richter Live, Vol. 4
Pianist Sviatoslav Richter is one of the greatest pianists in history. He exploded on the international circuit in 1960 following a sensational tour of the United States – but was already well-known in the Soviet Union as a recitalist. Between 1994 and 2006, American independent CD label Parnassus released “Richter in the 1950s”, a series…
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Shostakovich: The Complete Symphonies by Great Russian Conductors
Alto has gathered fifteen critically acclaimed, Russian-led recordings of all of Shostakovich’s symphonies – including such landmarks as Kiril Kondrashin’s legendary premiere performance of the Thirteenth Symphony, Evgeny Mravinsky’s blistering live recording of the Eighth Symphony, and Mstislav Rostropovich’s uncompromising live recording of the Eleventh, along with a “Who’s Who” of other Russian maestros including…
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Shostakovich Symphony No. 13, King Lear – Kondrashin, Serov
“Most important, historically, is the Moscow recording of the original 1962 version of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 using Yevtushenko’s [pre-censored] text commemorating the massacre of Jews at Babi Yar. … Yevtushenko’s original ‘I feel myself a Jew’ was what the anti-Semitic Soviet government would have no truck with. So it’s significant this is once again…
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Shostakovich Piano Concertos, Concertino, Trio No. 2 – Previn, Bernstein
Released together for the first time – landmark, critically lauded recordings of the Shaotakovich piano concertos and two other masterpieces, the Second Piano Trio and Concertino, performed by twentieth century all-stars including AndréPrevin, Leonard Bernstein, David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Knushevitzky, Lev Oborin, and Dmitri and Maxim Shostakovich!
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C Major “Leningrad”, Op. 60 –The Legendary 1953 Mravinsky Recording
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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 9 & 15
“(9th) They capture not only the joyful irreverence but the sense of danger lurking beneath … solo wind playing is excellent throughout…brilliantly played and vividly recorded” (CD Review) (15th) “with a superbly vivid Fifteenth, generally hard-driven à la Mravinsky but far more convincingly poised … first movement goes at a frightening lick, deserting the toy…
