Strange, I played my Stokowski LP a lot too but it didn't wear out! But I didn't buy it in 1968 but in the early 1980's. Anyway, I dubbed it, cleaned up the pops and crackle, and it sounds great in my MP3 collection today. BTW, I found the Stokowski version on CD on Amazon last year. Didn't buy it thought because my LP dub is perfectly good and mostly clean.
I've always loved the solo organ part of this piece. It's the reason why I bought the Stokowski LP when I first heard it on the radio well over 40 years ago. It's something right out of a haunted house! Utterly fascinating. And I like this performance. It's quite exciting but at least one of the trumpets was rather out of tune near the end and there are trumpet flubs all over the place, a real bummer! I'm wondering where the orchestra dredged up the extra trumpet players.
Japan Philharmonic performed at Suntory Hall under the direction of Pletnev a couple of years ago. The Japanese music media that doesn't report such a big performance is a waste.
This piece got Aram Katchaturian denounced as not Russian enough, not accessible to the people. Stalin walked out on it's first performance, presumably before the 7 minute mark! Later, he was reinstated... (presumably after Stalin heard the rest of the piece?)
@@mendax1773 you are absolutely and historically correct… so I guess we agree that Stalin was rather foolish to denounce someone who was not a Russian, for having written something that was not Russian!
More importantly… it is a spectacular piece of music… giving a pipe organ such a brilliant secular voice! I am pleased I was introduced to it at a young age!
There is just trash... and there is wonderful trash... and this piece is of the latter variety. Khachaturian wanted to write a bombastic piece and that's what you have. But sure is exciting! And keep in mind that Shostakovich, who was a far better composer, also wrote a lot of patriotic, propagandistic garbage in his time.
@@user-td4yx7dp1d Khachaturian intended the piece to have a political meaning within the context of the Soviet Union's history, not the long history of Armenia or the Armenian people. That it wasn't perceived as being political, "non-formalist" music by Zhdanov, Khrennikov, and their cronies which is a factor is why he got caught up in the "formalist" composers' purge in 1948 doesn't change my opinion of the work. Don't get me wrong. I like it... a lot. In fact, it's one of my favorite pieces and I have Stokowski's Chicago Symphony performance on my phone so I can listen to it in my car. But as a piece of music it remains Soviet propagandist trash and I feel no reading of Armenian history will change my view on that.
@@mendax1773 That's not the case. The symphony is about the protest of Armenian soul against violence and occupation, that's why this music was denounced by Stalin as "anti-soviet", along with the pieces of Shostakovich and Prokofiev, and all 3 composers were punished by exile and oblivion.
Good lord, wonderful work, it's a shame it's hardly ever recorded.
Ein wunderschönes Werk, Kachaturian wurde eine unglaubliche Mischung zwischen Symphonie, Simphonische Dichtung und ein Alte Kirchenmusik Stil.
Simplesmente fantástica. Uma viagem vigorosa e triunfante. Bravo 👏👏.👏👏.👏👏.
Я был на этом концерте. Было потрясающе
Incredible and impeccable!
I wore my Stokowski LP recording of this out in 1968. Bought a new copy in 2001. A great lush and typically Khatchaturian work. Pletnev does well.
Strange, I played my Stokowski LP a lot too but it didn't wear out! But I didn't buy it in 1968 but in the early 1980's. Anyway, I dubbed it, cleaned up the pops and crackle, and it sounds great in my MP3 collection today. BTW, I found the Stokowski version on CD on Amazon last year. Didn't buy it thought because my LP dub is perfectly good and mostly clean.
I've always loved the solo organ part of this piece. It's the reason why I bought the Stokowski LP when I first heard it on the radio well over 40 years ago. It's something right out of a haunted house! Utterly fascinating.
And I like this performance. It's quite exciting but at least one of the trumpets was rather out of tune near the end and there are trumpet flubs all over the place, a real bummer! I'm wondering where the orchestra dredged up the extra trumpet players.
Awsome performance
Japan Philharmonic performed at Suntory Hall under the direction of Pletnev a couple of years ago. The Japanese music media that doesn't report such a big performance is a waste.
hah yes...
Soviets killed a lot of Nippon-Nazis listening to this.
a majestic work to lift the spirits in such dark times.
Спасибо!
Hino comunista em homenagem a URSS escrita em 1.947
Коллеги тогда раскритиковали эту симфонию: мол, Хачатурян "выбрал грандиозные оркестровые средства не по своему таланту"...
Завистники просто)
This piece got Aram Katchaturian denounced as not Russian enough, not accessible to the people. Stalin walked out on it's first performance, presumably before the 7 minute mark!
Later, he was reinstated... (presumably after Stalin heard the rest of the piece?)
Not russian enough? What else? Typical mexican? Swiss?
Well, this is not a very Russian piece. After all, Khachaturian was from Armenia and was Armenian to his core.
@@mendax1773 you are absolutely and historically correct… so I guess we agree that Stalin was rather foolish to denounce someone who was not a Russian, for having written something that was not Russian!
More importantly… it is a spectacular piece of music… giving a pipe organ such a brilliant secular voice! I am pleased I was introduced to it at a young age!
Compare the list of Stalin Prize winners until 1948 with the list of denounced composers.
At least Russia has a great classical music tradition ; you can't take that away !
It's an Armenian composer!
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Measured by the extraordinary wealth of his wonderful second, this is a rather poor symphonie.
Actually, I'm rather partial to his First! Of the three, I think it's the best. Usually it's the other way around.
I’d hate to be that poor organist.
Занимайтесь! Занимайтесь! And you'll can be a great organist.
A curiosity, at best. Some interesting ideas, but some works are best left in the drawer.
Shostakovich never, never went as low and shallow as this.
If you know nothing, say nothing. It may not be noticed.
Well,the piece is absolute trash....Incredibly empty,bombastic,,banal .But the performance is fabulous.
There is just trash... and there is wonderful trash... and this piece is of the latter variety. Khachaturian wanted to write a bombastic piece and that's what you have. But sure is exciting! And keep in mind that Shostakovich, who was a far better composer, also wrote a lot of patriotic, propagandistic garbage in his time.
@@mendax1773learn Armenian history and you will understand this music. And will never call it "propagandistic trash"
@@user-td4yx7dp1d Khachaturian intended the piece to have a political meaning within the context of the Soviet Union's history, not the long history of Armenia or the Armenian people. That it wasn't perceived as being political, "non-formalist" music by Zhdanov, Khrennikov, and their cronies which is a factor is why he got caught up in the "formalist" composers' purge in 1948 doesn't change my opinion of the work. Don't get me wrong. I like it... a lot. In fact, it's one of my favorite pieces and I have Stokowski's Chicago Symphony performance on my phone so I can listen to it in my car. But as a piece of music it remains Soviet propagandist trash and I feel no reading of Armenian history will change my view on that.
@@mendax1773 That's not the case. The symphony is about the protest of Armenian soul against violence and occupation, that's why this music was denounced by Stalin as "anti-soviet", along with the pieces of Shostakovich and Prokofiev, and all 3 composers were punished by exile and oblivion.