Shostakovich "Symphony No 4" André Previn
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- Symphony No 4 in C minor op 43
by Dmitri Shostakovich
1. Allegretto poco moderato-Presto (Tempo I)
2. Moderato con moto
3. Largo-Allegro
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
André Previn, Conductor
What an orchestra. This orchestra had an elegantly "nonchalant" way with Shostakovich. I think at this time Phillip Smith was also part of the brass section. A decade or so later we had the 7th from Bernstein. And what a performance that was. I was there in that concert and i still cannot forget those closing pages after all those years. Many thanks for this wonderful post.
Influenced by Mahler, but filtered through Shostakovich's unique sensibility.
Many thanks for posting this great performance
Darned good.
This sounds like a 1977 recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It is still my most favored performance and recording. Despite being an analog recording (ADD) it's clarity and dynamic range are as good as the later digital recordings. Listen to 52:00 to 54:00 soft to loud passage. The thunderous timpani sound loud and clear.
It is! It says so just below the actual video, Sherlock Holmes! 🙂
Wow.
Indeed
0:08 is a good place to start.
very obvious mistake from solo violin at 22:40. It's kind of funny hearing it after listening to other recordings many times. Very odd that the (I'm assuming) concertmaster would mess up like that.
Well spotted. He/She takes the first long note to be the second one, then has to play them both the same- the first is higher. I think you can hear the emerging horror in the bowing...
What year did he record this?
1978
Thanks. I wonder if that was in Orchestra Hall or Medinah Temple
@@lawrencechalmers5432 Medinah Temple.
Volume level problems? I need it louder, then I need it quieter.
Thats called "natural dynamic range" you must be used to compression. In the music hall such range is common , in classical compositions. Good recordings capture that. I end up turning it up and down myself...but the trick is to set yer system so the loudedt passages sound as loud as real life and no louder, then just 'accept' the quiet parts as being meant to be quiet.... its how it was in concert..
Most modern recording in popular music make very little range from quiet to soft. Having good dynamic range is a good thing. If a bit offputting to ears accustomed to "loudness wars" compression (look up loudness wars if you dont understand 'dynamic compression' ) such compression is largely intended to make rock music and pop music more enjoyable on poor systems like phone speakers. Compression CAN benefit music , rock guitar in particular , house music etc... but its anæthema to classical. Nothing wrong here , in fact its very right (especially for youtube, which also compresses and truncates the original)
Think of a piano in real life capable of making sounds from a whisper to a thunder , and then picture on how most recordings the quiet notes are portrayed as being almost as loud as the loud ones , that's compression; and it's not how it does in real life.
@@maxwelsh6121 Sadly the older you get the less dynamic range you can cope with, and it depends on the quality of your speakers, room and background noise. In a concert hall, you have the bonus of being able to see the strings almost silently drawing their bows across, and have the analogue vibrations in your bodies to help with the overall feel of the music - not available on digital recordings, or some modern speaker devices. But hey, that's what hi-fis are for!