Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 In C Minor, Op. 65

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1. Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 65 (Stalingrad)
Composed by Dmitry Shostakovich
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Andre Previn

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Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65 - Concertgebouw Orchestra / Bernard Haitink
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    		Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65 - Concertgebouw Orchestra / Bernard Haitink
    Dmitri Shostakovich (Composer) , Bernard Haitink (Conductor) , and Concertgebouw Orchestra
    Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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    ASIN: B00000E2QC
    Release Date: 1990-10-25
    Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65 - Neeme Järvi / Scottish National Orchestra
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      Manufacturer: Chandos
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      ASIN: B000000AJ2
      Release Date: 1992-10-28

      Tracks:

      1. Symphony No.8 In C Minor Op.65: I. Adagio--allegro non Troppo
      2. Symphony No.8 In C Minor Op.65: II. Allegretto
      3. Symphony No.8 In C Minor Op.65: III. Allegro non troppo
      4. Symphony No.8 In C Minor Op.65: IV. Largo
      5. Symphony No.8 In C Minor Op.65: V. Allegretto
      Shostakovich-Symphony No. 8
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        		Shostakovich-Symphony No. 8
        Dmitri Shostakovich , Vladimir Fedoseyev , and USSR TV & Radio Large Symphony Orchestra
        Manufacturer: Moscow Studio
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B00025EQWG
        Release Date: 2004-07-06

        Tracks:

        1. Adagio
        2. Allegretto
        3. Allegro Non Troppo
        4. Largo
        5. Allegretto

        Album Description

        Dmitri Shostakovich's Eighth is one of his largest and most "Mahlerian" symphonies (he admired and studied Mahler), and has become more and more popular in recent years after first meeting with disapproval from Soviet authorities at its premiere in 1943. This is a live recording at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, May 5, 1985.

        Inside the booklet is a rare photo that shows Shostakovich as a firefighter during the siege of Leningrad in World War II, on the roof of the Leningrad Conservatoire, 1941.
        Shostakovich: The Complete Symphonies
        Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
        • Rough-Edged, but Compelling
        		 Shostakovich: The Complete Symphonies
        Dmitri Shostakovich , Ladislav Slovak , and Czecho-Slovak Symphony Orchestra
        Manufacturer: Naxos
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        ASIN: B00005QISC
        Release Date: 2002-02-19

        Tracks:

        1. Allegretto - Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
        2. Allegro - Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
        3. Lento - Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
        4. Allegro Molto - Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
        5. Allegretto-Allegro-Andante-Allegro-Largo-Moderato - Slovak Philharmonic Chorus

        Tracks:

        1. Symphony No.2 In B Major, Op.14 'October' - Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
        2. Allegretto - Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
        3. Adagio - Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
        4. Allegretto - Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
        5. Adagio - Slovak Philharmonic Chorus

        Tracks:

        1. Allegretto Poco Moderato
        2. Moderato Con Moto
        3. Largo-Allegretto

        Tracks:

        1. Moderato
        2. Allegretto
        3. Largo
        4. Allegro Non Troppo
        5. Allegro
        6. Moderato
        7. Presto
        8. Largo
        9. Allegretto

        Tracks:

        1. Largo
        2. Allegro
        3. Presto
        4. Revolutionary Petrograd
        5. Razliv
        6. Aurora
        7. Dawn Of Humanity

        Tracks:

        1. Allegretto
        2. Moderato (Poco Allegretto)
        3. Adagio
        4. Allegro Non Troppo

        Tracks:

        1. Adagio
        2. Allegretto
        3. Allegro Non Troppo
        4. Largo
        5. Allegretto

        Tracks:

        1. Moderato
        2. Allegro
        3. Allegretto
        4. Andante: Allegro

        Tracks:

        1. The Palace Square
        2. The 9th Of January
        3. In Memoriam
        4. The Tocsin

        Tracks:

        1. Babi Yar - Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
        2. Yumor (Humor) - Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
        3. V Magazinye (At The Store) - Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
        4. Strakhi (Fears) - Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
        5. Karyera (Career) - Slovak Philharmonic Chorus

        Tracks:

        1. De Profundis - Magdalena Hajossyova
        2. Malaguena - Magdalena Hajossyova
        3. Loreley - Magdalena Hajossyova
        4. The Suicide - Magdalena Hajossyova
        5. On The Alert - Magdalena Hajossyova
        6. Look Here, Madame! - Magdalena Hajossyova
        7. At The Sante Jail - Magdalena Hajossyova
        8. Zzaporozhye Cossacks' Reply To The Sultan Of Constantinople - Magdalena Hajossyova
        9. O Delvig, Delvig! - Magdalena Hajossyova
        10. The Poet's Death - Magdalena Hajossyova
        11. Conclusion - Magdalena Hajossyova

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        Newly repackaged in a space-saving, super-bargain box, the Naxos Shostakovich cycle may entice shoppers looking to acquire the 15 symphonies cheaply and all at once. Certain performances are better than others. The First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, 10th, and 12th require more dynamism and heft than the Czecho-Slovak Symphony Orchestra give Ladislav Slovák, notwithstanding marvelous first-desk solos. By contrast, the caustic wit and slippery chamberlike qualities of Nos. 9 and 15 are expertly realized. Bass Peter Mikulas and soprano Magdaléna Hajóssyová enliven and brilliantly characterize texts in the two "song symphonies," Nos. 13 and 14. Slovák, in turn, revels in the disjunctive sound worlds of the Second and Third, and traverses the Fourth, Seventh, Eighth, and 11th with an eagle-eyed overview of their sprawling canvasses. You shouldn't be without key individual recordings like Bernstein's 1959 New York Philharmonic Fifth, Berglund's 11th, or Haitink's 13th, and Rudolf Barshai's bargain cycle on Brilliant Classics offers greater sonic impact and more personalized conducting. Still and all, the present set's finest moments are worth the modest investment. --Jed Distler

        Customer Reviews:

        4 out of 5 stars Rough-Edged, but Compelling.......2002-03-07

        I like this set. I'm not about to claim that it's perfectly played or beautiful to listen to; Inbal on Denon, Haitink on Decca and Rostropovich on Teldec all command better - and more opulent sounding - orchestras than the Slovak Radio Symphony. But there is a certain raw honesty about these Naxos performances that I find tremendously appealing. The Shostakovich symphonies, after all is said, aren't 'haute cuisine' music. They reflect some of humankind's ugliest experiences and their beauties always come packaged in scar tissue. For that reason, I've always enjoyed the 'rough and ready' Shostakovich played by east european and Russian orchestras: the performances just seem more truthful. That's the case here, although I intend no disrespect toward Inbal, Haitink and Rostropovich (especially the latter who was, of course, a great friend of the composer). But Ladislav Slovak has his own Shostakovich credentials and they are solid. He worked in the 1950s with the great Yevgeny Mravinsky at the Leningrad Philharmonic when it was one of the world's greatest orchestras. Mravinsky was one of Shostakovich's favorite conductors and he performed most of these symphonies, some for the first time, and many under Shostakovich's direct supervision. So Slovak saw a lot and up close. Nevertheless, Slovak's performances aren't slavish copies of Mravinsky. He has his own ideas. For example, listen to the richly barbed irony Slovak projects in symphonies 1 and 9, or how well he conveys eloquence, without pomposity, in the problematic 7th ('Leningrad') symphony. Or listen to Slovak's tight and cogent performances of two of Shostakovich's most fascinatingly diffuse scores, symphonies 4 and 11 ("The Year 1905"). In short, Slovak is never less than thought-provoking and if his orchestra were better, I think his achievement would be more widely acclaimed. As it is, the orchestra plays quite competently, with particularly alert and characterful woodwinds (usually; they miscalculate the magical opening of the last movement of Symphony 13). If the orchestra suffers from a consistent fault, it's that there aren't enough strings to sound comfortable playing "above the stave," as the British say. No matter; the imagination, intensity & spirit of these performances are what count with me. In fact, I think there's only one out-and-out failure in the set: a performance of Symphony 12 that's just too slow and heavy, making a tedious piece seem even more tedious than usual. (Mravinsky played this symphony at breakneck speed; surely the only way to make it endurable!) I wish I could say that the digital sound quality is consistently fine, but it varies too much from performance to performance. It's never less than good, but variable. Still, don't get me wrong: warts and all, this set's a real bargain. Eleven (11) cds come packaged in a compact box with an extensive booklet that includes full texts and translations. Final word: cheap without quality is false economy. In spite of the shortcomings I've mentioned, there's real quality here.
        Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 In C Minor, Op. 65
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • MUCH TO BE TRAGIC ABOUT
        		 Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 In C Minor, Op. 65

        Manufacturer: Capitol
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        ASIN: B00000DOE9
        Release Date: 1995-07-11

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars MUCH TO BE TRAGIC ABOUT.......2003-09-14

        Intense and gloomy tragedy is all part of my superficial western view of a distinctively Russian style. After hearing Tchaikovsky's Pathetique for the first time Shaw remarked that Tchaikovsky had a thoroughly Byronic capacity for being deeply tragic about little or nothing. No doubt Shostakovich imbibed this tradition too, but he had no need to be tragic for the sake of it - the world around him provided tragic material aplenty. Another difference, for me, is that whatever the external circumstances of his life and the external influences on his musical expression Tchaikovsky in the last resort wrote music for the sake of music. For Shostakovich that would have been a luxury. There was too much he wanted to say about the world he found himself in, and music was his way of saying it.

        The 8th symphony is as grim a product as even Shostakovich ever gave us. It rouses itself from the anguish of the first movement to bitterness and a touch of defiance in the next two, sinks back into a near-catatonic stillness in the fourth and attains some kind of resigned peace in the final section. The work dates from 1943. It was written apparently in the space of a few weeks, and I seem to find in it a consistency of style and mood that does not characterise everything by him. Small wonder, I suppose. There can't have been much about Russia in 1943 that provided much in the way of contrast or relief.

        What is likely to divide opinion over Previn's interpretation is his very slow speeds in the first and fourth movements. Music-lovers looking to acquire only one version would probably be well advised to hear some other versions as well, say Haitink and Karajan, before committing themselves. For my own part, I like it Previn's way. The near-annihilated state of mind that seems to me to underly the fourth movement comes over powerfully to me in this account. In the first movement the famous and extraordinary chain of gasping fortissimo chords is more powerful than ever for being given time to make its effect. The London Symphony seem to be back to their unique best after slipping a little in the 70's and 80's - they make a very special sound, hard to put into words but hard to mistake as well. The recorded sound is admirable.

        `Recommend' seems hardly the word for a record that does justice to a work like this, but if the piece is to your taste at all you will find no punches pulled here.
        Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No 08, Op 65
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          		Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No 08, Op 65

          Manufacturer: Denon Records
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          ASIN: B0000034X0
          Release Date: 1994-10-18

          Tracks:

          1. Symphony No.8, Op.65: l - Adagio
          2. Symphony No.8, Op.65: ll - Allegretto
          3. Symphony No.8, Op.65: lll - Allegro non troppo
          4. Symphony No.8, Op.65: lV - Largo
          5. Symphony No.8, Op.65: V - Allegretto

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          This is Shostakovich's greatest symphony, even though apologists rank the Fifth or the Tenth as his best. The fact is that Shostakovich's follow-up to the Seventh (1941) is a wartime symphony, and contains some of the bleakest passages in 20th-century music. We now know that the music is meant to describe Stalin's paranoiac predations on his own people, but that doesn't matter. This is the Abyss. No one's gone in deeper. Eliahu Inbal and the Wiener Symphoniker's whole series of Shostakovich symphonies on Denon is a staggering achievement--this is the crown. --Paul Cook
          Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, op. 65 (1943)
          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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          		 Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, op. 65 (1943)
          Evgeni Mravinsky
          Manufacturer: Russian Disc
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          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B000001LN7
          Release Date: 1996-06-18

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars About this CD.......2004-05-12

          Among its peers, the Eighth Symphony occupied a privileged place in Mravinsky's repertoire. It is the only one that Shostakovich dedicated to him - or, indeed, to any conductor. Although he premièred five other Shostakovich symphonies, Mravinsky claimed never to have suggested any changes to orchestration in all his years of collaboration with the composer except in the case of the Eighth, in the second and third movement of which he persuaded Shostakovich to incorporate doubling of woodwinds by trumpet and horns, respectively.

          Mravinsky's last recording of the work, from his final year as the Leningrad Philharmonic's principal conductor, has had a troubled history on compact disc. Philips were the first to release it, in 1989 (422 442-2). By the time listeners with perfect pitch noted that Philips' remastering was a semitone sharp, the release had already won critical acclaim, and it is undoubtedly firmly entrenched in the libraries of thousands who have never discovered that the disc is flawed. This matters. Although it is true that listeners without perfect pitch are unlikely to suspect that anything is amiss with a recording that is a semitone sharp or flat, it is not true that the effect is imperceptible to them. As the pitch error is caused by incorrect transfer speed, a performance transferred sharp is faster than at the correct pitch, and will be interpreted by even the most tone-deaf listener as having greater "drive". Most listeners will also describe the sharp recording as "brighter" or "airier". Furthermore, the track timings that reviewers often use as a cue to interpretation will be misleading.



          With little fanfare, Russian Disc released this performance again in 1996 (RD CD 10 917), this time at the correct pitch. Compared with the sharp transfer, it is notably darker and more tension-ridden. As will become clear in a moment, this is now the only version of the recording currently available at the correct pitch.

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