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Anonymous /mu/127140975#127157992
7/24/2025, 5:52:08 PM
time for a proper traversal of Kondrashin's Shostakovich cycle? yes indeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hGUPYjhThQ&list=OLAK5uy_lQBR3FCd6tOV1MbF-z22d23DrqYr3bvq0&index=5

>I remember going to a concert in the Royal Festival Hall very many years ago, where a touring Russian orchestra – one of the best – was performing. The only thing I remember about the concert, aside from some staggering playing, was that all of the string instruments seemed to be of the same make, certainly being all of the same uniform dark brown colour. I don’t quite know why, but this somehow seemed to sum up the wide differences between the worlds of Russia and the west. There are so many things that we think we know about that other country, but don’t really understand. The Kondrashin recordings are essential Shostakovich listening for this reason if for no other. They spring from the genuine source, and express not only the voice of one great composer, but the voices of an entire population who, for better or worse, became part of something simultaneously vastly inspiring and uniquely terrifying. ---- Dominy Clements