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In Reply to: RE: Yep, BSO landed on their feet with Nelsons.... posted by Ivan303 on January 08, 2017 at 12:00:40
Hope they left the DGG engineers at home.
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As I understand it, DG (and probably most other major labels) don't really do their own recordings and don't have in-house engineers any more, and haven't for some time. Instead, most classical recordings nowadays are done by third parties and are licensed for release by the record labels. Look at the new Murray Perahia Bach recording on DG as an example: he just signed his new contract with them in September 2016, yet the recording was made back in 2013, when he was still with Sony.
BTW, I love the Nelsons Shostakovich recordings, especially 10 and 8--the best 8th since Previn's EMI one, I think.
Russell
The engineering on the DG Shostakovich recordings is excellent, but to me the performances are merely good and didn't get me to set aside my favorites.
Hmmmm. I got that feeling regarding their 5th,8th, and 9th; but the 10th didn't do it for you? The Petrenko is also a recent 10th that good raves.
I could always go back to Karajan's, but want to give the new guys a try.
No opinion on the performance of the 10th. I just don't find it an interesting piece, except for the "portrait of Stalin" movement, which Mitropolous and Mravinsky did better than Nelsons.
I don't listen to Karajan recordings because I prefer to avoid performances by Nazis.
Well thanks for the input, I understand your issues with von K.
Since I know the Mravinsky and Mitro, I guess I'll go for Petrenko.
I like the first mov't quite a bit, and then, of course, the 2nd. But the 4th mov't can be a riot if done right.
Who knows, maybe I'll change my mind after listening to the 10th more. I've just gotten to appreciate the first two movements of the 11th.
But my faves are the 14th (which I've seen in concert twice, once with John Shirley-Quirk (Dwight Oltman conducting) and once with Thomas Quasthoff (Welser-Moest conducting); can't remember who the sopranos were; 13th; 6th, 1st, and 5th.
Oh, man--the final 10 min of the 11th are as angry and bad-*ss as Shostakovich every got. : )
On vinyl, I loved the Berglund, and BIS' with Wigglesworth is my current favorite.
I like the Lazarev recording of the 11th; haven't heard Berglund or Wigglesworth yet. The other recordings of the 11th that I have (Rostropovich/NSO, Barshai, Stokowski/Houston) don't come close to the intensity of Lazarev.
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