AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Symphonies Nos. 1 and 15.
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 15. Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Telarc CD-80572.
I listened to this Telarc issue of Shostakovich symphonies the day after suffering through the same company's concurrent release of the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra. The sonic differences are night and day. I could barely make out the individual instruments in the Bartok, recorded with the London Philharmonic, but here in Cincinnati the definition is back in place. In fact, this is one of Telarc's better sonic performers, still a little too warm in the midbass for my taste, but, otherwise, well balanced, robust, and truthful. It makes an even better impression if turned up a bit louder than one might otherwise play it, perhaps because the distortion is so low.
Anyway, I enjoyed both of these works by the Russian composer, his first and last symphonies. The similarities, despite being almost fifty years apart (1924 and 1971), are ...
- Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 88 and 89; Sinfonia concertante in B flat major. Frans...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John April 1, 2001 700+ words
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 88 and 89; Sinfonia concertante in B flat...Symphonies 88 and 89 fall between his "Paris" symphonies, Nos. 82-87, and his final "London" symphonies, Nos. 93-104. No. 89 is fairly typical of the...
- Haydn: the "London" Symphonies, Nos. 93-104; plus Symphonies Nos. 88, 91, and...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound July 1, 2004 700+ words
Haydn: The "London" Symphonies, Nos. 93-104; plus Symphonies Nos. 88, 91, and 91. Eugene Jochum, London Philharmonic Orchestra; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. DG 474 364-2 (5-disc set). In...
- Symphonies Nos. 4 and 12.
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John August 1, 2001 700+ words
Villa-Lobos: Symphonies Nos. 4 and 12. Carl St. Clair, SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra...In the case of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos's Symphonies Nos. 4 and 12, the reasons are not hard to fathom from one listening...
- Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1-4; Overture, Scherzo & Finale.
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John February 1, 2003 700+ words
...EMI have wisely chosen to bundle them in the order they were written, with Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4 on the first disc, along with the Overture, and Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 on the second disc. No. 4 may have the later number, but was actually...
- Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9. David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. Arte...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John August 1, 1999 700+ words
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9. David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. Arte Nova...contrast to its more serious neighbors. Traditionally, the middle symphonies, Nos. 5-7, have been the most popular. Yet it is with Zinman...
- Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9.
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John November 1, 2001 700+ words
Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9. Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra. Philips 289 464 640-2. Clearly, I'm jaded. Any new recording of...
- Bartok: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra; Eotvos: Replica, for Viola and...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Nehring, Karl W. September 1, 2000 700+ words
Bartok: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra; Eotvos: Replica, for Viola and Orchestra; Kurtag: Movement for Viola and Orchestra Kim Kashkashian...
- Symphonies Nos. 6 and 7; The Tempest, Suite No. 2.
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John August 1, 2001 700+ words
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 6 and 7; The Tempest, Suite No. 2. Petri Sakari, Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Naxos 8.554387. In order for any Sibelius...
- Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; 4 Orchestral Pieces; Hungarian Peasant Songs...
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide Hecht, Roger November 1, 2001 700+ words
BARTOK: Concerto for Orchestra; 4 Orchestral Pieces; Hungarian Peasant Songs London Philharmonic/Leon Botstein Telarc 80564-76 minutes. Leon...
- Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra.
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide Hecht March 1, 2006 700+ words
BARTOK: Concerto for Orchestra MARTINU: Memorial to Lidice; KLEIN: Partita Philadelphia Orchestra/ Christoph Eschenbach Ondine 1072 [SACD...
Source: HighBeam Research, Symphonies Nos. 1 and 15.