Artist: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Title Of Album: Gennady Rozhdestvensky Edition: Historical Russian Archives
Year Of Release: 2007
Genre: Brilliant Classics
Quality: FLAC (Image+.cue)
Total Time: 11:04:35 min
Total Size: 2,85 Gb
The conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky was never a predictable artist on disc and his hottest performances could easily power the national grid. Such is the intensity of at least two Shostakovich performances that turn up in Brilliant Classics’s Gennady Rozhdestvensky Edition. I cannot recall ever hearing a more confrontational account of the Ninth Symphony than the one Rozhdestvensky gave with the USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra on December 21, 1982, the work’s cheerful, rather sardonic “not-a-ninth-symphony” spirit suddenly pushed to the edges of irony and at times sounding positively sadistic, the first and last movements in particular. A very extreme case of “what he really meant”, whether or not you agree.
A Tenth Symphony from the same year and a Leningrad from 1968 are similarly combustible and moody, the latter captured in mono and with a first-movement build-up that initially seems to be holding fire but that soon draws on reserves of intensity that equal the Ninth. Also included are vividly characterised accounts of the First and Fourth symphonies, taped in 1976 and 1987 respectively, and superbly performed but rather constricted stereo recording of the still scandalously underrated Suite on Verses of Michelangelo, Shostakovich’s completion of Benjamin Fleischmann’s mini-opera Rothschild’s Violin (a moving and memorable musical statement about Soviet anti-Semitism), some lyrical and occasionally amusing British and American folksong settings including “Blow the wind southerly”, “Billy Boy”, “Comin’ thro’ the rye” and so on, with both English and Russian texts used. Other Shostakovich scores range from the ballet suite The Bolt to entr’actes from Katerina Izmaylova and other shorter works.
Two more novelties complete this second CD, Robert Volkmann’s engaging overture Richard III (with its surprise quote of “The Campbells are coming”) and Spohr’s brief Faust Overture. Add music by Haydn (attrib), Bach arr Mozart (Adagios and Fugues), Adam, Agadzhikov, Belimov, Cherubini, Gluck, Mosolov, Polovinkin, Rakov, Shaporin, Shebalin, Johann Strauss II and Volkonsky and you get the drift: a typically eclectic Rozhdestvensky mix, with heights and middle-heights, and never a dull moment. The recordings vary but none is less than acceptable and again Ates Orga writes some splendid notes. Rob Cowan
CDs:
CD1 - Haydn - Die Erwählung eines Kappellmeisters; J.S. Bach arr. W.A. Mozart - Three Preludes and Fugues; Gluck - Narcisse et Echo; Adam - Danilowa
CD2 - Dvorak - Symphony No.2; Volkmann - Richard III; Spohr - Faust
CD3 - Fleischmann / Shostakovich - Rothschild’s Violin; Strauss II - Express Train Polka; Shostakovich - British and American Folk Songs
CD4 - Shostakovich - Symphony No.1, Festive Overture, Mournful-Triumphal Prelude in Memory of the Stalingrad Heroes
CD5 - Shostakovich - Symphony No.4
CD6 - Shostakovich - Symphony No.7
CD7 - Shostakovich - Symphony No.9, Suite on Verses by Michelangelo Buonarrotti
CD8 - Shostakovich - Symphony No.10, The Bolt – Ballet Suite
CD9 - Shebalin - Symphony No.3; Shaporin - The Flea – Suite; Rakov - Sinfonietta for string orchestra, Symphony No.3
CD10 - Agadzhikov - Concerto-Poem for violin and orchestra; Volkonsky - Immobile for piano and orchestra; Belimov - Concerning Water, Dead and Alive
CD1 - Haydn - Die Erwählung eines Kappellmeisters; J.S. Bach arr. W.A. Mozart - Three Preludes and Fugues; Gluck - Narcisse et Echo; Adam - Danilowa
Joseph Haydn (attrib.)
Die Erwählung eines Kappellmeisters
1. Der Chor, den das Schicksal getrennet
2. Aus allen unseren Söhnen
3. Weisester Apollo
4. Ein’ Stimme ohne Witz, ein’ Nadel ohne Spitz
5. Die Wissenschaft ist schön
6. Aus Pindus Berg herunter fließt
7. Wie trefflich stimmet alles zusamen
8. Ju, he, he, à peu près
9. Schweiget, nasse Pippenbruder
10. Es leb’ der echte Musensohn
Natalia Koptanova, soprano
Natalia Burnasheva, mezzo-soprano
Viktor Gukov, tenor
Nikolay Miasoedov, bass
State Chamber Orchestra
J.S. Bach arr. W.A. Mozart
Three Preludes and Fugues K404
11. Adagio
12. Fugue
13. Adagio
14 Fugue
15. Adagio
16. Fugue
C. Willibald von Gluck
17. Narcisse et Echo – Overture
Adolphe Adam
18. Danilowa – Overture
Luigi Cherubini
19. La Prisonnière – Overture
USSR Ministy of Culture Symphony Orchestra (1-16)
Moscow State Conservatory Student Symphony Orchestra (17)
State Academy Symphony Orchestra of USSR (18-19)
CD2 - Dvorak - Symphony No.2; Volkmann - Richard III; Spohr - Faust
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No.2 in B flat Op.4
1. I. Allegro molto
2. II. Poco adagio
3. III. Scherzo: Allegro con brio
4. IV. Allegro con fuoco
Robert Volkmann
5. Richard III – Overture
Louis Spohr
6. Faust – Overture
USSR Ministy of Culture Symphony Orchestra (1-4)
Moscow State Conservatory Student Symphony Orchestra (5-6)
CD3 - Fleischmann / Shostakovich - Rothschild’s Violin; Strauss II - Express Train Polka; Shostakovich - British and American Folk Songs
Venyamin Fleischmann / Dmitri Shostakovich
Rothschild’s Violin
1. The Wedding Band
2. What are you playing?
3. This small town is worse than a village
4 Band Music
5. Do you remember, Yakov?
6. God had given us a little girl
7. Band Music – Make that trumpet merrier!
8. Down here on earth
9. Rothschild runs away
10. Loss: One coffin for Marfa Ivanova
11. If they could live without hatred or evil
12. It’s better to die
13. Be kind to me, don’t hit me!
14. Rothschild plays the violin
Johann Strauss II
15. Express Train Polka
Dmitri Shostakovich
British and American Folk Songs
16. Blow the wind southerly
17. When we were first acquent
18. Billy Boy
19. Oh! the Oak and the Ash
20. Servants of King Arthur
21. Coming thro’ the Rye
22. Come Lasses and Lads
23. When Johnny comes marching home
Anatoly Safiulin, bass (Ivanov, aka Bronza)
Alexey Martynov, tenor (Rothschild)
Alexander Naumenko, tenor (Shakhkes, a gravedigger)
Natalia Burnasheva, mezzo-soprano (Marfa)
Elena Ivanova, soprano (folksongs)
Sergei Yakovenko, baritone (folksongs)
USSR Ministy of Culture Symphony Orchestra
CD4 - Shostakovich - Symphony No.1, Festive Overture, Mournful-Triumphal Prelude in Memory of the Stalingrad Heroes
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.1 in F minor Op.10
1. I. Allegretto – Allegro non troppo
2. II. Allegro – Meno mosso
3. III. Lento – Largo – Lento –
4. IV. Allegro molto – Lento – Allegro molto
5. Festive Overture Op.96
6. Mournful-Triumphal Prelude in Memory of the Stalingrad Heroes Op.130
5 Entractes from Katerina Ismailova
7. Scenes 1–2: Allegretto
8. Scenes 2–3: Allegro con brio
9. Scenes 4–5: Largo (Passacaglia)
10. Scenes 6–7: Allegretto
11. Scenes 7–8: Presto
12. Der arme Columbus – Overture
State Academy Symphony Orchestra of the USSR (1-4)
USSR State TV and Radio Symphony Orchestra (5-6)
USSR Ministy of Culture Symphony Orchestra (7-11)
Moscow State Conservatory Student Symphony Orchestra (12)
CD5 - Shostakovich - Symphony No.4
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.4 in C minor Op.43
1. I. Allegro, poco moderato – Presto – Tempo I
2. II. Moderato, con moto
3. III. Largo – Allegro
USSR Ministy of Culture Symphony Orchestra
CD6 - Shostakovich - Symphony No.7
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.7 in C Op.60 ‘Leningrad’
1. I. Allegretto
2. II. Moderato (Poco allegretto)
3. III. Adagio
4. IV. Allegro non troppo
USSR State TV and Radio Symphony Orchestra
CD7 - Shostakovich - Symphony No.9, Suite on Verses by Michelangelo Buonarrotti
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.9 in E flat Op.45
1. I. Allegro
2. II. Moderato
3. III. Presto
4. IV. Largo
5. V. Allegretto – Allegro
Suite on Verses by Michelangelo Buonarrotti Op.145a for bass and orchestra
6. I. Truth
7. II. Morning
8. III. Love
9. IV. Separation
10. V. Anger
11. VI. Dante
12. VII. To the Exile
13. VIII. Creativity
14. IX. Night
15 X. Death
16. XI. Immortality
Evgeny Nesterenko, bass
USSR Ministy of Culture Symphony Orchestra (1-5)
CD8 - Shostakovich - Symphony No.10, The Bolt – Ballet Suite
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.10 in E minor Op.93
1. I. Moderato
2. II. Allegro
3. III. Allegretto
4. IV. Andante – Allegro
The Bolt – Ballet Suite
5. Introduction
6. The Bureaucrat’s Dance
7. Intermezzo
8. The Conciliator
9. Drayman’s Dance
USSR Ministy of Culture Symphony Orchestra
CD9 - Shebalin - Symphony No.3; Shaporin - The Flea – Suite; Rakov - Sinfonietta for string orchestra, Symphony No.3
Vissarion Shebalin
Symphony No.3 in C Op.17
1. I. Allegro assai
2. II. Andante
3. III. Vivo assai
4 IV. Andante – Allegro assai
Yuri Shaporin
The Flea – Suite
5. I. Moderato assai
6. II. Andante con moto
7. III. Andantino
8. IV. Andantino
9. V. Tempo di valse
10. VI. Moderato
Nikolay Rakov
Sinfonietta for string orchestra
11. I. Allegro moderato
12. II. Allegretto grazioso
13. III. Vivo
14. IV. Andante sostenuto
15. V. Allegro con fuoco
Symphony No.3 in C for string orchestra
16. I. Allegro moderato
17. II. Andante
18. III. Vivo
19. IV. Andante sostenuto – Allegro
USSR Ministy of Culture Symphony Orchestra (1-4)
State Academy Symphony Orchestra of the USSR (5-10)
USSR State TV and Radio Symphony Orchestra (11-19)
CD10 - Agadzhikov - Concerto-Poem for violin and orchestra; Volkonsky - Immobile for piano and orchestra; Belimov - Concerning Water, Dead and Alive
Aman Agadzhikov
1. Concerto-Poem for violin and orchestra
Alexander Souptel, violin
Andrei Volkonsky
2. Immobile for piano and orchestra
Alexey Lubimov, piano
Sergei Belimov
3. Concerning Water, Dead and Alive - Concerto for oboe and strings
Juozas Rimas, oboe
Leonid Polovinkin
4. Telescope 2 - Suite for orchestra
Alexander Mosolov
5. Iron Foundry
USSR State TV and Radio Symphony Orchestra (1)
USSR Ministy of Culture Symphony Orchestra (2-3)
State Academy Symphony Orchestra of the USSR (4-5)
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