I'll recommend some recordings for you which will be low in price, but high in quality - all these are three star recommendations (ie the highest rating)in the...
Does anyone know how to approach his 6th symphony? I simply don't get it. It was originally supposed to be a tribute to Lenin and then later Shosty changed his...
I am the sixty-seventh member of this club. I have also joined another Shostakovich club called dmitrievichshostakovich. Mainly I am interested to know what...
Hello!<br>According to some, the 6th symphony is another picture of life in 1930's Soviet Russia. According to study by Ian McDonald and others, Shostakovich ...
I hear all good things about Kondrashin and Mravinsky. I have a Mravinsky DS#7 and DS#5 from the '50s, on the Omega label, and they are hot. (although the ...
Even though the Brodin Quartet was often criticized with the heart-warming, romantic, and slow interpretation of Dsch's quartets, i still think that to play ...
Does anyone know who Marina Lomazov is and if she's recorded anything? She blew through here an hour an a half ago like a tornado, with our local orchestra,...
Where do you find the Melodiya Borodin recordings for an inexpensive price? I have heard the Borodin quartet perform Shostakovich and have found them to be a ...
I have a recording of both Violin concertos with Oistrakh and Russian performers and it is very good, though I think the disc is no longer available. Should I ...
I tend to like the Borodin interpretations because they bring out the Russian element in Shostakovich's string quartets. Shostakovich's string quartets are...
I have two questions:<br>1) several years ago while I was in Russia I purchased Shostakovich's violin and viola sonata on one Melodiya disc with Yuri Bashmet,...
Hi<br>I´ve just logged in this club. I´d like to ask why are there so few women on it. <br>In Rachmaninoff club, which I am a member too, the proportion...
Maybe because Rachmaninov is more sentimental? I know several female fans of Shostakovich, including my sister, but I would expect Rachmaninov to be more ...
Well, there are also some women who like Shostakovich, I love him, in fact he is one of my favourites composers. But I suppose Rachmaninov is more popular...
Here is Gramaphone's response to my second question:<br>Shostakovich [Suite] Suites – The Gadfly, Op. 97a; Five Days, Five Nights, Op. 111a. National...
Do you really think Rostropovich is a bad conductor?<br><br>I have the 8th conducted by Semyon Bychkov (Berlin philharmonic) on Phillips. I love it, but I...
Among my favorites of Shostakovich's great works are the 24 Preludes and Fugues Op 87 for piano. They are a cyclic work, after Bach's "The Well-Tempered ...
I recommend, as many others do (look at www.shostakovich.org recommended recordings)one live recording by Mravinsky and the Lenningrad Philarmonic Orchestra. ...
I have heard some recordings of Rostropovich conducting Shostakovich and did not like it. On the other hand his recordings of the violin concertos got great ...
Mravinsky is absolutely hard to beat. I have a lot of Mravinsky records and I agree plenty. <br>In another hand, Rostropovitch was wonderful for his instrument...
