Hannes Minnaar, Karina Canellakis - Shostakovich.S8 (11.05.2024-Live-Amsterdam)

1. Jan-Peter de Graaff - Concert No. 7, for luthéal and orchestra

2. Dmitry Shostakovich - Symphony No. 8

Hannes Minnaar (piano/luthéal), Karina Canellakis (Dirigent)

Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Location - the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Recording date - Saturday 11 May 2024

The tragic Eighth of Shostakovich

On 12 October 2019, the much-discussed inauguration concert of Karina Canellakis with a beautiful performance of SjostakovitsjShostakovich’s Tenth Symphony ended. Today she returns to the Russian composer with her favorite: the Eighth Symphony. This second ‘war symphony’, written in 1943, is called Shostakovich’s most tragic work. The rulers therefore considered the work to be completely unsuitable for Soviet propaganda. The symphony was banned shortly after the premiere until 1956.

Hannes Minnaar plays piano and luthaéal

The Dutch composer who, when it comes to great gestures and finesse, can compete with Shostakovich is Jan-Peter de Graaff. According to Het Parool, Le café de nuit, an earlier commission of the Saturday Material, already showed his ‘remarkable mastery of the orchestral palette’. Again on commission, he this time answers Hannes Minnaar’s interest in the luthéal, an extension of the wing from the beginning of the twentieth century on which the timbre can be changed with different registers. A nice renewed acquaintance with this special instrument.

Hartmut Haenchen, Kristof Barati (14.02.2019-Live-Budapest)

Concert of the National Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen Km .: Kristóf Baráti (violin) 1. Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major (Baráti), encore: Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita d-moll BWV 1004 - Allemande encore: Ysaye from Sonata No. 2 for Solo Violin, Op. 27 'Obsession' 2. Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No.8 (Bela Bartok Cocert Hall, 14.02.2019)

Klaus Mäkelä - Shostakovich. S7 (10-11.05.2019-Live-Stockholm)

10.05.2019 19:00 @ Berwaldhallen – Stockholm, Sweden
SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Vasks: Pater Noster
Vasks: Laudate Dominum
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C Major ”Leningrad”
The Swedish Radio Choir
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor


11.05.2019 15:00 @ Berwaldhallen – Stockholm, Sweden
SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Vasks: Pater Noster
Vasks: Laudate Dominum
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C Major ”Leningrad”
The Swedish Radio Choir
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
FLAC + cue

Klaus Mäkelä - Shostakovich.S6 (06-07.03.2019-Live-Stockholm)

06.03.2019 18:00 @ Berwaldhallen – Stockholm, Sweden

SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Korngold: Violin Concerto in D Major

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 in B minor

Elina Vähälä, violin

Klaus Mäkelä, conductor





07.03.2019 18:00 @ Berwaldhallen – Stockholm, Sweden

SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Korngold: Violin Concerto in D Major

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 in B minor

Elina Vähälä, violin

Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
FLAC + cue

Jaime Martin - Shostakovich.S11 (05.01.2020-Live-London)

Symphonies of requiem and revolution
Radio 3 in Concert

The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, whose reputation as the world's greatest orchestra of teenagers reaches far beyond the UK, and conductor Jaime Martin perform a trio of politically charged 20th-century works.

Hans Eisler's visceral choral revolutionary song kicks off the proceedings, followed by Britten's brilliant orchestral Sinfonia da Requiem, an unlikely pre-World War II commission by the Japanese government to mark the Japanese Empire's 2600th anniversary. Shostakovich's quasi-cinematic Symphony No 11, subtitled 'The Year 1905', vividly depicts scenes from the failed first Russian Revolution, long-celebrated as the Soviet people's initial, faltering step towards the establishment of a socialist state. The symphony proved an instant success in the Soviet Union at its 1957 premiere and in a superbly ironic twist it also won the Lenin Prize. Ironic because Shostakovich was covertly portraying another much more recent failed revolution, that of the brutally suppressed 1956 Hungarian uprising against Soviet rule.

Recorded at London's Barbican hall, 05.01.2020

Eisler: Auf den Strassen zu Singen
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem

Interval

Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 'The Year 1905'

You fell as a victim

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Jaime Martin (conductor)
FLAC + cue

Daniel Raiskin - Shostakovich.S5 (16.11.2017-Live-Ljubljana) FLAC

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Overture to 'The Creatures of Prometheus', Op 43

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Violin Concerto in D major, Op 61
Benjamin Schmid (violin)

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
Passacaglia
Benjamin Schmid (violin)

Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Symphony no 5 in D minor, Op 47
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Raiskin (conductor)

Hannu Lintu - Shostakovich.S8 (04.04.2018-Live-Helsinki) FLAC

Wed 04.04.2018 -
19.00 to 21.00
HALL: Concert Hall
Helsinki Music Centre, Concert Hall
ESTIMATED DURATION: 2 hours
ORGANIZER: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Vadim Gluzman plays Vasks’ violin concerto.
Latvian Pēteris Vasks is a neo-mystical composer for whom music is a means of addressing the enigma of existence. The soloists in his violin concerto are Vadim Gluzman, an Israeli born in Ukraine, and his Stradivarius. The middle work in Shostakovich’s war trilogy (symphonies 7–9) won a standing ovation that lasted half an hour at its premiere. And tonight?


Repertoire
Peteris Vasks - Distant Light
Dmitri Shostakovitsh - Sinfonia nro 8 op. 65

Hannu Lintu - conductor
Vadim Gluzman - violin
Finnish Radion Symphony Orchestra

exellent....

Michal Nesterowicz - Shostakovich.S10 (14.10.2016-Live-Dublin) FLAC

Elina Vähälä (violin)

Performances from Dublin of works by Peteris Vasks & Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj; Shostakovich
National Concert Hall, Dublin, 14.10.2016

Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj (1933-2010)
3 Pieces in Old Style for string orchestra
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Michal Nesterowicz (conductor)

Vasks, Peteris (b.1946)
Violin Concerto (Distant Light)
Elina Vähälä (violin), RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Michal Nesterowicz (conductor)

Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)
Symphony No.10 in E minor, Op.93
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Michal Nesterowicz (conductor)

Juanjo Mena - Shostakovich.S15 (09.12.2017-Live-Manchester) FLAC

BBC Philharmonic
Radio 3 in Concert

Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Shostakovich and presents the UK premiere of music by his compatriot, Rodion Shchedrin.

From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 09.12.2017

Rodion Shchedrin: Dialogues with Shostakovich (UK premiere)
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1

8.30
Music interval

8.50
Shostakovich: Symphony No 15

Renaud Capuçon (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic present Shostakovich's Fifteenth and final symphony in the second half of the concert, a work which moves from playful abandon to existential dread. Before the interval outstanding French soloist Renaud Capuçon joins the orchestra for Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto, a work he hid from view until after the death of Stalin. The concert opens with a UK premiere: an evocative portrait of Shostakovich by compatriot Rodion Shchedrin, 'Dialogues with Shostakovich'.

Jukka-Pekka Saraste - Shostakovich.S8 (Aufnahme vom 31.03.2017 im Konzerthaus Berlin) FLAC

Jukka-Pekka Saraste dirigiert das Konzerthausorchester Berlin
Aufnahme vom 31.03.2017 im Konzerthaus Berlin

Magnus Lindberg
Violoncellokonzert Nr. 2
Anssi Karttunen

Dmitrij Schostakowitsch
Sinfonie Nr. 8 c-Moll, op. 65

Shostakovich. S9 - Zoltan Kocsis (03.06.2003-Live-Budapest) FLAC

The Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Cond. Zoltán Kocsis
Jean-Yves Thibaudet - piano
1. Ligeti: San Francisco Polyphony,
2. Webern: Passacaglia Op 1
3. Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major (Thibaudet)
4. Stravinsky: Fireworks - Fantasy for Orchestra,
5. Shostakovich: Symphony No.9
(Music Academy Hall,
June 3, 2003)

Shostakovich. S8 - Kirill Karabits (25.01.2017-Live-Poole) FLAC

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Prokofiev, Shostakovich
Radio 3 in Concert

Live from the Lighthouse, Poole, 25.01.2017

Presented by Martin Handley

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kirill Karabits, play Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No.2

8.00: Interval

8.20: Shostakovich: Symphony No.8

Valeriy Sokolov, violin
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits, conductor

Prokofiev worked on his Second Violin Concerto at the same time as Romeo and Juliet and the two works have much in common, particularly an ardent and voluptuous lyricism.

The second of Shostakovich's wartime symphonies, the Eighth was criticized as being too pessimistic at a time when Stalin was insisting that Soviet victory was in sight. It does contain possibly the most terrifying music Shostakovich ever wrote, yet he tried to persuade listeners otherwise, describing it as "an optimistic, life-asserting work... all that is dark and evil will rot away, and beauty will triumph." Perhaps the final flute solo does at least suggest that the lone hero has survived.

After tonight's concert there's a chance to hear the fruits of the latest round of Adopt-a-Composer projects, which pair a composer with an amateur performing group in order to write and perform a new piece of music.

Shostakovich. S10 - John Storgards (22.10.2016-Live-Manchester) FLAC

BBC Philharmonic - Nielsen, Maxwell Davies, Shostakovich
Radio 3 in Concert

The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by John Storgards, in powerful music by Shostakovich, Nielsen and Maxwell Davies. They are joined by virtuoso trumpeter Hakan Hardenberger.

Recorded at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 22.10.2016

Nielsen: Maskarade, Overture
Maxwell Davies: Trumpet Concerto

8.10pm
Music Interval

8.30
Shostakovich: Symphony No.10

Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)

The Overture to Nielsen's Maskarade sets the scene for a masked ball, full of vivacious energy and playful wit. Shostakovich's hugely powerful Tenth Symphony received its first performance soon after Stalin died and its opening movement speaks bleakly of suffering while the Scherzo snarls with venom. Pioneering trumpeter Hakan Hardenberger is the soloist in Peter Maxwell Davies's Concerto, with its virtuoso solo demands and rich orchestral palette. A still, calm voice here is the plainsong quoted by the composer celebrating the feast of St Francis. The sounds of birds feature too, familiar from Max's Orkney home, rather than from Assisi.

Shostakovich. S10 - Sakari Oramo (03.02.2017-Live-London) FLAC

BBC Symphony Orchestra - Kabalevsky, Michael Zev Gordon, Shostakovich
Radio 3 in Concert

Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in an evening of Kabalevsky, Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony and the premiere of Michael Zev Gordon's Violin Concerto, with soloist Carolin Widmann.

Recorded on 3 February 2017.

19.30
Dmitri Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon (Overture)
Michael Zev Gordon: Violin Concerto (BBC commission: world premiere)

20.00 Interval
Robert Schumann: Violin Sonata No.1 in a minor Op.105
Carolin Widmann (violin), Dénes Várjon (piano)

20.20
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No 10 in E minor

Thrills and high drama are guaranteed with Kabalevsky's rip-roaring overture and Shostakovich's powerful Tenth Symphony, all conducted by the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. Kabalevsky's piece, full of fizz and pop, is followed by a very different work, Michael Zev Gordon's new violin concerto - a work of rich lyrical power with bold contrasts of colour and expression - and performed here with the acclaimed German violinist Carolin Widmann.
Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, a heartfelt cry for freedom written under the looming presence of Joseph Stalin, is one of the 20th century's most shattering symphonic experiences.

Shostakovich. Symphony No.8 - Nicholas Collon (13.01.2017-Live-Manchester) FLAC

BBC Philharmonic - Ravel, Shostakovich
Radio 3 in Concert

New Perspectives: the BBC Phiharmonic play Ravel and Shostakovich.

Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 13.01.2017

Ravel: Noctuelles (arr. Stucky
Oiseaux tristes (arr. C. Matthews
La vallée des cloches (arr. C. Matthews) World Premiere
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

encore: Debussy - Arabesque No 1

8.15: Interval

8.35: Shostakovich: Symphony No 8 in C minor

BBC Philharmonic
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
Nicholas Collon, conductor

When Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein lost his right arm in the First World War, he asked Ravel to write him a piece he could play with his left hand alone. The remarkable result will be played tonight by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, a BBC Philharmonic favourite and the work's most brilliant living champion. The three recent orchestrations of pieces from Ravel's piano cycle Miroirs include the world-premiere of a BBC Philharmonic commission. Alongside these, Nicholas Collon unleashes Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony, a wartime work of such immense power that the Soviet authorities ultimately banned it.

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неожиданно хорошее исполнение 8-й Шостаковича.

Shostakovich. Symphony No.14 - Maxime Tortelier (30.09.2016-Live-London) FLAC

Sound Frontiers: Southbank Sinfonia, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Radio 3 in Concert
30.09.2016
Sound Frontiers: as part of Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre, the Southbank Sinfonia, conducted by Maxime Tortelier, perform Boulez's delicate Mémoriale for flute and chamber ensemble and Shostakovich's death-haunted song-cycle, his Symphony No 14.

Boulez: Mémoriale
Shostakovich: Symphony No 14

Helena Gourd (flute)
Anush Hovhannisyan (soprano)
Jihoon Kim (bass)
Southbank Sinfonia
Maxime Tortelier (conductor)

good sound 

Legendary record of Russian musicians - Nikolai Petrov 100cds (cd 047) FLAC [RE-UPLOAD]

DISC 47 - Nikolai Petrov

DANCE WITH NIKOLAI PETROV

WEBER, Carl Maria von 1786-1826
1. Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65 10:41
RAVEL, Maurice 1875-1937
2. Noble and Sentimental Waltz 16:38
DELIBES, Léo 1836-1891
(Arr. DOHNANTIN, Ernö1877-1960)
3. Waltz from Ballet'Copéllia' 7:22
4. Waltz from Ballet'Nailä' 6:42
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri 1906-1975
5. Polka from the Ballet 'The Golden Age' 2:20
LISZT, Franz 1811-1886
6. Grand Galop Chromatique 3:44
GINASTERA, Alberto 1916-1983
7. 'Dance of delightful Virgin' from Dances of Argentina, Op.2/2 3:27
CONFREY, Edward(Zez)1895-1971
8. Ragtime 'A Cat on the Keys' 1:05
SOLER, Padre Antonio 1729-1783
9. Fandango in d minor 7:28

Piano: Nikolai Petrov
(Recording 19 February 1989)
Total time 59:30

Yuri Temirkanov - Shostakovich.S7 (09.05.2016-Live-St.Petersburg) FLAC

Концертный зал радио "Орфей" 75-летие начала Великой отечественной войны
Д. Шостакович Симфония №7 («Ленинградская»)
в исполнении Заслуженного коллектива России Академического симфонического оркестра Санкт-Петербургской филармонии
п/у Ю. Темирканова.
Запись из БЗ Санкт-Петербургской филармонии из от 9.05.2016г.
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radio orpheus

Nikolai Lugansky, Peter Oundjian (21.05.2016 - Live - London) FLAC

Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Shostakovich and Prokofiev
Radio 3 in Concert

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Peter Oundjian perform a powerful Russian programme of Shostakovich's 8th Symphony and Prokofiev's spirited 2nd Piano Concerto.

Recorded at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 21 May 2016

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 2

8.05pm
Interval Music
Schubert: Four Impromptus D.935 performed by Nikolai Lugansky

8.25
Shostakovich: Symphony No 8

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Nikolai Lugansky, piano.

Shostakovich. Symphony No.7 - Karl Eliasberg (27.04.1964-Live-Leningrad) FLAC

Report from the fireworks January 27, 1944
documentary records Leningrad Radio
Дирижер Карл Элиасберг о симфоническом оркестре Ленинградского радио в блокаду, об исполнении в блокадном Ленинграде 7-й симфонии Д.Д. Шостаковича
Dmitri Shostakovich. Symphony № 7 "Leningrad"
Leningrad Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Karl Eliasberg. Record January 27, 1964.
mariinsky.fm
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ПАМЯТЬ

    Каждый раз, приезжая в Ленинград, я спешу на Пискаревское кладбище. Здесь, у дорогих моему сердцу могил, заново переживаю горечь утрат и сильней, чем где-либо, осязаю на губах последний поцелуй любимой. Аня Кузнецова, черноглазая студентка Института культуры, умерла в феврале 1942 года. Незадолго до ее смерти я приезжал из воинской части навестить Аню. И мне не забыть эту последнюю нашу встречу.