Tag: Saint Petersburg Chamber Orchestra
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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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Rossini: Sonatas for Strings
Gioacchino Rossini’s Sonatas for Strings are among his earliest surviving works – precocious works that reveal the young composer’s gifts of melody and wit. Originally composed for a handful of players, the works are also suited for string orchestra, and receive virtuosic, lighthearted readings under the direction of Eduard Serov. This is charming, highly listenable…
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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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Françoise Choveaux: Symphony Indigo, Op. 2 & Other Works
