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As an impecunious teenager in the UK years ago, I was delighted to pick up this recording of the 5th Symphony of Shostakovitch for 50p at W. H. Smith.
I had already heard and been delighted by the 1st Symphony, so I spent my money on the strength of the composer's name alone.
It's a very different work, of course -- dramatic, bleak at times, but also lyrical and perhaps ironic too. I've never tired of it.
I've listened to some of the other symphonies since then (not the 2nd or 3rd) but come back to the 1st and the 5th as my favourites.
It might not be obvious from the garish album cover that this recording is in fact a reissue of....
#ClassicalMusic #Shostakovitch #5thSymphony #RussianMusic #SovietMusic #20thCenturyMusic #Symphonic #1930s #Stalinism
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As an impecunious teenager in the UK years ago, I was delighted to pick up this recording of the 5th Symphony of Shostakovitch for 50p at W. H. Smith.
I had already heard and been delighted by the 1st Symphony, so I spent my money on the strength of the composer's name alone.
It's a very different work, of course -- dramatic, bleak at times, but also lyrical and perhaps ironic too. I've never tired of it.
I've listened to some of the other symphonies since then (not the 2nd or 3rd) but come back to the 1st and the 5th as my favourites.
It might not be obvious from the garish album cover that this recording is in fact a reissue of....
#ClassicalMusic #Shostakovitch #5thSymphony #RussianMusic #SovietMusic #20thCenturyMusic #Symphonic #1930s #Stalinism
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Aram Khatchaturian -- Symphony No. 3 (Symphony-Poem) -- Chicago Symphony Orchestra , Leopold Stokowski conductor
https://youtu.be/FvPa1ASaxLA?si=qQFFWDPjOpx1YtTLThis 1947 work in praise of the "Soviet Motherland" was condemned by Zhdanov as "formalistic".
I find this assessment difficult to understand. To my ears, this 24 minutes of vulgar bombast has more in common with the movies at their worst than with modernism.
Anyway, when the announcer on KMFA said that John Williams was coming up, that's when I knew it was time to switch off.
#ClassicalMusic #Khatchaturian #SovietMusic #20thCenturyMusic #JohnWilliams #Ahdanov #Formalism
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Aram Khatchaturian -- Symphony No. 3 (Symphony-Poem) -- Chicago Symphony Orchestra , Leopold Stokowski conductor
https://youtu.be/FvPa1ASaxLA?si=qQFFWDPjOpx1YtTLThis 1947 work in praise of the "Soviet Motherland" was condemned by Zhdanov as "formalistic".
I find this assessment difficult to understand. To my ears, this 24 minutes of vulgar bombast has more in common with the movies at their worst than with modernism.
Anyway, when the announcer on KMFA said that John Williams was coming up, that's when I knew it was time to switch off.
#ClassicalMusic #Khatchaturian #SovietMusic #20thCenturyMusic #JohnWilliams #Ahdanov #Formalism
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Будьте здоровы, живите богато. (Be well, live richly.) [Eng. Rus. and Romanized Lyrics]
https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/7a76cb98-6bc5-4b21-9c20-78e339a4a57a
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Here's Emil Gorovets' setting of the same poem which is much more of a cheerful triumphant anthem😅🎶 Really shows how the same text can be interpreted very differently. it's not that I dislike it, it's charming, but it doesn't have quite the same feeling of a repressed person screaming to be heard.
https://soundcloud.com/user-39180681/gist-zhe-on-peretz-markish-e-gorovets-8 -
Here's Emil Gorovets' setting of the same poem which is much more of a cheerful triumphant anthem😅🎶 Really shows how the same text can be interpreted very differently. it's not that I dislike it, it's charming, but it doesn't have quite the same feeling of a repressed person screaming to be heard.
https://soundcloud.com/user-39180681/gist-zhe-on-peretz-markish-e-gorovets-8 -
my favourite one of the 6, a very melancholic piece😭🎶
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMnLGhrf2Z4#SovietMusic #SovietComposer #WomenComposers #Armenia #ArmenianMusic
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my favourite one of the 6, a very melancholic piece😭🎶
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMnLGhrf2Z4#SovietMusic #SovietComposer #WomenComposers #Armenia #ArmenianMusic
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Feeling stressed by some bad news & these Prelues by Gayane Chebotarian are really hitting the spot. I was learning some of them a few years ago but never got to all of them. Really beautiful stuff by an underappreciated Soviet composer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVt8eG6HzqM#Armenia #SovietMusic #Preludes #Piano #WomenComposers #ArmenianComposers
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Feeling stressed by some bad news & these Prelues by Gayane Chebotarian are really hitting the spot. I was learning some of them a few years ago but never got to all of them. Really beautiful stuff by an underappreciated Soviet composer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVt8eG6HzqM#Armenia #SovietMusic #Preludes #Piano #WomenComposers #ArmenianComposers
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For a larger selection of his recordings, check out Russian Records here: https://russian-records.com/search.php?search_keywords=Eppelbaum
#YiddishMusic #JewishMusic #SovietMusic #Yiddish -
He had a nice, soft voice; you can stream some of his recordings on youtube, such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJikHAc1HbA&ab_channel=VariousArtists-Topic
#JewishMusic #Yiddish #SovietYiddish #SovietMusic