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The classic RCA disc of Previn playing the second piano concerto and Rostropovich playing the first 'cello concerto with Ormandy and the Philadelphia orchestra.
Alicia Weilerstein playing the first 'cello concerto.
Jarvi and the SNO in the 5th, 7th, 8th and 10th Symphonies.
The Borodin Quartet playing the Quartets on EMI.
Oistrakh playing the violin concertos. (Any version!)
Karajan and the Berlin Phil. in Symphony no. 10. -
Bought this on the off-chance one day casually walking down The Strand (I’m sure the shop has gone) and never looked back!
White-hot intensity, playing on the seat of their pants, with the nervousness and dichotomy of the BPO & Karajan playing in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, the first time since WW2 - all this being palpable, almost touchable in this recording.
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Preludes and Fugues, MelnikovComment
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The Chandos Historical set of 1-13 features the original members inc Rostislav Dubinsky....you probably need that as wellOriginally posted by pastoralguy View Post
Symphony 15 RCO HaitinkComment
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String Quartets 1 to 13,Borodin Quartet (Chandos)
String Quartets 14 & 15,Eder Quartet (Naxos)
Symphonies 1 & 7,CSO Bernstein (DG)
Symphony No 7 Halle Elder
Preludes Op 34,Oli Mustonen (Decca)
Piano Quintet,Matthias Kirschnereit Szymanowski Quartet (Hannsler)Comment
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No question about Oistrakh - a given!Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
With Karajan - are you referring to the 1967 or 1982? (Both for DG)Comment
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Goodness where does one start?
Bernstein/Chicago SO Symphony No 7
Haitink/RCO Symphony No 5, Symphony No 15
Gromadsky/Kondrashin/Moscow PO Symphony No 13 (second ever performance in 1962 on a probably hard to find Russian Disc. The tension in this is palpable as if everone expected to be arrested on the spot).
Schiff/BRSO/Maxim Shostakovich Cello Concertos
Chaiily/RCO Jazz Suites
and so much more..."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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I've been through the cycles once-too-often and don't know if or when I'll return.... but it was always Russian performers for me:
Symphonies - Kondrashin on Aulos or Melodiya; Rozhdestvensky (with some reservations - he can seem oddly detached occasionally) sounding best on Olympia - some of the BMG/Melodiya 2fers are OK, if somewhat...acidic. On past experience, Venezia is probably excellent - if you can find it...
The Taneyev Quartet's cycle is less well known but I would take it over the Borodins (for refinement, intensity and contrast) or any other by a margin. It was scattered about incomplete on various issues until Aulos issued a DSD remaster in a deluxe, heavyweight turquoise box. Exceptional in all respects.
There was always a vital quality missing for me, in Haitink, or even Bernstein - with most Western recordings really. Something to do with idiom or "accent".... in the rhythm, the anxious, unsettling pulse, the turning of the phrase (not to mention those brasses.....)...
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The synphonies conducted by Vasily Petrenko on Naxos with the RLPO, the best Russian orchestra outside Russia.
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Essential Shostakovich - not that much DSCH rates as "essential" for me, but the following certainly do:
Symphony No. 13, Kondrashin/Gromadsky, live (second ever performance, was on Russian Disc)
Symphony No. 10, Ancerl, Czech PO (DG)
String Quartet No. 8, Borodin Quartet (Decca)Comment
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Sym 1 / 5 CPO Ancerl
Sym 10 NYPO Mitropoulos
Sym 9 WellerComment
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Piano Concerto no 2 - Bernstein - (the LP coupled with Ravel was one of my first Shost recordings nearly 50 years ago)
Isabelle van Keulen & Ronald Brautigam - Violin Sonata, Viola Sonata
Piano Quintet - Hollywood String Quartet
Symph 15 - Haitink
Piano Trio 2 - Emil Gilels, Mstislav Rostropovich & Leonid Kogan
Piano Concerto No.1 - composer & André Cluytens/French Radio Orch
Cello Concertos - Heinrich Schiff/Maxim Shostakovich, Bavarian Radio Orch
Preludes and Fugues - Vladimir Ashkenazy
some Songs
Str Quartets - Shostakovich QuartetComment
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Second the AncerlOriginally posted by cloughie View Post
Oistrakh and Slava on Sony with Philly and NYP respectively in VC and CC 1
Andriss Nelsons/ Boston in Symphonies 5, 9, 10.
The aforementioned Haitink or Solti/CSO in 15, Solti coupled with a searing DSCH Orchestration of Songs and Dances of Death.
Kitaenko/Cologne in 7.and 11(absolutely cinematic).
Fitzwilliams in the Quartets, Borodin with Dubinsky for Russian players.
Babi Yar I am divided between Kitaenko, Masur, Solti, and Haitink.
Haitink in 4, ether Chicago or his earlier (London Phil? Or Amsterdam).
Trio #2--the most searing piece of Chamber Music ever, imho--Ma/Ax/Stern. Ax nails those klezmer type chords in the beginning of IV (Jews being forced to dance on their graves prior to being shot by the Germans).Comment
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