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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 - New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein
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waldstein
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17 Sep 2009 21:43:23
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major Op. 60 “Leningrad” – New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Classical | 1 CD | EAC Rip | 368 MB | FLAC+LOG+M3U+Cue | Full scans | 3 RS links
Publisher: Sony Classical
| “ | One of Leonard Bernstein's special talents was to take a neglected or even derided work and find gold in it. By Oct. 1962, when this recording was made, the Shostakovich Seventh had worn out its fund of good will as an anti-Nazi poster from WW II, sinking into both neglect and derision. But Bernstein earned raves for this performance on LP, and one can see why. The NY Phil. plays like a band of virtuosos; in terms of sheer performance skill it would be hard to imagine this work done with more elan and conviction. This is all the more amazing because the Seventh contains 74 min. of often leaden, banal, rhetorically inflated music, among the least inspired that Shostakovich ever put into a major symphony. Bernstein conducts with such care and sensitivity that he finds emotional validity in the stiffest passages. The reviewers who dislike this reading have distorted the facts. This isn't a slow performance. In fact it's faster in every movement than the classic 1953 performance under Mravinsky and faster in 3 out of 4 movements than the recent, very good Temirkanov recording on RCA. The original sonics on the LP were spectcular and continue to be on the CD--it's impossible to tell that this recording is more than 45 years old. Altogether, Bernstein has achieved almost a miracle of renovation in a work that needed a lot of renovation to begin with. - from Amazon.com | ” |
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Posted By:
DanseDePuck
Date:
18 Sep 2009 19:26:26
AMAZING version, if I remember correctly. I believe this is live, right? Possibly not. There is a live version of this somewhere... but I think it was released on DGG. Remember Toscanini was one or the first to tackle this symphony back in the DARK AGES...
Posted By:
waldstein
Date:
18 Sep 2009 21:47:00
No. This is studio version. His second with Chicago So (for DG) is "live". But this is amazing performance.
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