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Shostakovich wrote this piece with Barshai, Vishnevskaya and Barshai's Moscow Chamber Orchestra in mind as performers, and dedicated it to British composer Benjamin Britten with whom Shostakovich had become friends. The bass in the first performance was Yevgeni Vladimirov, but Mark Reshetin performed the majority of the early performances, as well as the British premier conducted by Britten with Vishnevskaya as the soprano soloist. The complicated personnel changes among the vocal soloists in the premier recordings are recounted in Elizabeth Wilson's excellent and informative
Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (Second Edition)
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This version of Shostakovich's 14th is positively harrowing, with the tempi of several movements taken as fast as i've ever heard them (cf. Haitink, Jarvi, Kondrashin, Rostropovich's Russian account with the same soloists). The singing is occasionally a little rough, but to my ear this fits perfectly with the urgent mood of the performance. Mark Reshetin is magnificent; he seems to completely own this piece. Vishnevskaya's vibrato may be a little heavy, but to me this is of little consequence given the dramatic intensity of her performance. Seek out her performances with Rostropovich of Shostakovich's Satires (Op. 109), Seven Romances on poems of Alexander Blok (Op. 127) and his orchestration of Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death. These pieces were all written for her, and you get used to the vibrato. Again, it takes on secondary importance compared to her dramatic shaping of the performances.
Another interesting note: this was clearly one of the very first versions of this symphony recorded, as the tenor tom-tom joins the strings for the last four 32nd notes of the Conclusion, an alteration which Barshai suggested and which Shostakovich tried and ultimately rejected. This is the only recording i've heard which include those notes.
David Oistrakh's reading of the Shostokovich 9th with the USSR Symphony Orchestra seems like a fine one. Unfortunately this symphony has not really grabbed me before, so i cannot comment on it in detail. I'll only say that my initial listen through this performance really makes me want to hear it again. I love Oistrakh's violin playing, and this is the first piece i've ever heard him conduct. Captivating! Apologies for the lack of detail here.
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steve norton
A thrilling reading of Shostakovich's 14th.
2013年7月8日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
