Yevgeny Mravinsky in Moscow: April 24 1959

Here, it is the Fourth, in a performance of astonishing brilliance and grandeur, but also of darkness, of Shostakovich-like grimness and even, in the tone and attack of the woodwind, grotesqueness.... — Sunday Times, 17th May 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Apr 2009
Catalogue No: DSD350053
Label: Praga
Series: Digitals, Reminiscences

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Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'

Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Evgeny Mravinsky

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Evgeny Mravinsky

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24th April 2009 marks the jubilee of one of the rare concerts given in Moscow by Yevgeny Mravinsky with 'his' Leningrad Philharmonic.The 'Unfinished' is worthy of comparison with Furtwangler's recordings in Berlin (1950) and Vienna (1951). In Tchaikovsky, the most implacable vision of the 4th Symphony, in his repertoire as of 1938, comes back to life. One is unsure of witnessing a funeral ritual or rite of sacrifice.

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17th May 2009

Here, it is the Fourth, in a performance of astonishing brilliance and grandeur, but also of darkness, of Shostakovich-like grimness and even, in the tone and attack of the woodwind, grotesqueness. The first movement of the Schubert is, again, awesome in its tragic force.

Yevgeny Mravinsky in Moscow

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