Tag: Vitaly Gromadsky
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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…
