Hi - I bought it yesterday as I have never listened to any music by Shostakovich, so I thought good opportunity - wow! listened to a small part but some of the recording quality at least is very good, enjoying it so far - powerful stuff !
I was surprised you could not find it, neither could I until I typed the following in to the Presto Music searchbox and !
Shostakovich: Symphonies; Concertos; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District
HiRes 96/24 downlaos £20.12
Good luck
That’s about what I paid a while back. But I found it in Presto today, and the price was USD155.75.
A day too late…. Presto currently showing the hi res download @ US $100.25. Glad so many managed the much better price!
Brilliant Ian! After seeing your message, I logged into Presto using a UK VPN address and got the package for the price above. I’m really excited. News for anyone in the US that wants this deal; login to Presto with a UK IP address. Twenty pounds vs 100 US dollars… quite a negative exchange rate!
Gregg
I’m not sure if I’m allowed to post a direct link to the website, but try googling “Shostakovich: Symphonies; Concertos; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District”. Click on the Presto option and it should take you to the box of CDs on their website. Then click on the downloads option and choose Hi Res (24/96). Current U.K. price £20.12.
Roger
Not if you’re in the U.S. unless you use a UK VPN. See Gregg’s post just above yours.
CD on Sony
Fairly early composition (1802) despite the Op.85 catalog number. Beethoven’s only published Oratorio…
The best Tosca on records since Sinopoli’s, and it has joined my shortlist next to Sinopoli, Karajan II, and Leinsdorf. Small niggle: Harding isn’t quite as successful as his peers in managing the ebb and flow in this music; he glosses over micro tempo and volume fluctuations e.g. compare the Act II interrogation with Karajan. Everything else is great, not least the cast that oozes charisma and individuality. Buratto gives a masterclass, but even she’s upstaged by Tetelman, who lacks her sensitivity but who cares - here’s finally a tenor who needn’t fear comparison with Bjoerling, Carreras or Domingo. This recording just keeps getting better the more I listen to it.
Cheers
EJ
I’ll put it on my list of buys, thanks.
Originally released on Columbia. This is the remastered Sony/Masterworks Heritage CD produced by Lousie de la Fuente and engineered by Ellen Fitton & Todd Whitelock.
Recorded in NYC, 1961/62
Milhaud: Les Choéphores
Roussel: Symphony No. 3 in G minor
Honegger: Rugby, Pacific 231
I’m once again reminded how wonderful this cycle is…certainly in the top 5 of all the Beethoven symphony cycles I own. Equally wonderful is Zinman’s Beethoven Piano Concerto recordings with Yefim Bronfman, and the Violin Concerto with Christian Tetzlaff.
Highly Recommended!
CD’s on Arte Nova Classics (now Sony/BMG)
This was released today. It’s wonderful as one would expect for a disc of Vikingur Olafsson playing Bach, Beethoven and Schubert.
Yes! I believe it was the cycle licensed into the Brilliant Classics complete Beethoven box? Really terrific.
Edit: nope! It was Blomstedt with Staatskapelle Dresden. But the Zinman is amazing.
CD on EMi/Warner (from the live Celi/Munich box set)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 n b-minor “Pathetique”
I’m thinking of giving myself a subscription to the Royal Opera House on-demand service as a holiday present. Has anyone here ever subscribed? I love ballet and the occasional opera.
I spent the morning – with a business friend; we played hooky from work – at the New York Philharmonic’s open rehearsal of Dvorak’s New World/9th Symphony. Gershwin and Bernstein also on the program. Dudamel conducting. Really fun, and I’m curious how the show tomorrow night will reflect what I heard them working on today.
Also: Dvorak’s Symphony from the New World is so rock’n’roll. The pentatonics, the Black music motifs, the train-based rhythms, so much that presaged the way American music would evolve, although mostly outside the “classical” idioms.
