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Music : Shostakovich: Symphonies no 5 and 9 / HaitinkIn association with Amazon.comfrom: Decca  List Price: $11.98 Amazon.com's Price: $10.99 You Save: $0.99 ( 8%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0028942506626 Format: Original recording reissued Label: Decca Manufacturer: Decca Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Decca Release Date: July 18, 2000 Studio: Decca Sales Rank: 10211 MPN: 425066 Disc 1: Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Gorgeously recorded so that all of Shostakovich's eerieness of texture (and harps) can be heard, Haitink's performance of the Fifth symphony is pretty wonderful. The bare landscape of the first movement, with its lonely oboe solos, leads into the very Mahlerian, faux-fun second movement with creepy ease. The Largo is introverted but poignant, with handsome, sustained pianissimo playing, and the finale has great energy, but not quite enough of the grotesque--it's a bit too well-groomed. The Ninth, on the other hand, is ideal, with a finale to rollick over, and a refusal to turn the sometimes sappy second movement into empty emotion. It's one of those moments when Haitink's coolness pays off. A good buy. --Robert Levine Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Wonderful Ninth, yoked to a drab FifthI have always regretted the way London/Decca rearranged the Haitink performances: the original pairing of this performance of the 9th was with an equally fine performance of the 1st (now paired with the intermittently interesting but ultimately unsuccessful 3rd). The performances of both symphonies on the original disc capture the mix of light and dark, playfulness and tragedy, lyricism and satire. It is unfortunate, that the current disc pairs an exemplary recording of the witty 9th with Haitink's ... Read More Rating: - One of my favourite symphoniesI'm not going to debate who's interpretation of Shostakovich's symphonies is best as some reviewers have. I'll simply say this: the fifth symphony is among my favourite of all symphonies by anyone. I highly reccomend it, whether it is this recording or another one. However, without going into issues of interpretation, I will say that the recording quality on this CD is very good. Rating: - Five stars for a sparkling, vivacious Ninth, but set a snooze alarm for the FifthHere we have one triumphant Shostakovich performance and one nearly inexcusable one. The praise that Haitink's Shostakovich Fifth has garnered here is inexplicable--this is a plodding reading that barely gets on its legs for the entire first movement. Don't the reviewers below detect the total absence of rhythmic vitality and pace? I guess not. Oh well, one person's nobility is another's long nap. The Scherzo clumps along well enough, but without bite or satire. The centerpiece of Haitink's ... Read More Rating: - A Soviet Artist's Response to Just Criticism?!The Symphony No. 5 is one of Shostakovich's greatest masterpieces, which can hardly be ascertained from its origins as a piece to satisfy the Soviet state's artistically stifling demands in music (for example, all other aspects of music had to be subordinate to melody). The previous year Shostakovich was savagely attacked in the Pravda for his opera `Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District', primarily because Stalin was shocked by its graphic sex and violence, and the fifth symphony was Shostakovich's reaction to ... Read More Rating: - Superb interpretation and ultra superb recordingI wish that Haitink made more amazing recordings like this one of the 5th and 9th symphonies by Shostakovich. He is usually thought of as being in the top rank of conductors, but by hearing this disc, you might think that he's just about the best. Maybe the amazing sound quality kind of makes him look good, but not really, this is just a greatly played superb interpretation. The Concertgebouw (which by the way is my favorite Orchestra at the present time) are on their toes throughout this version of the 5th. ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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