Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 - New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major Op. 60 “Leningrad” – New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Classical | 1 CD | EAC Rip | 368 MB | FLAC+LOG+M3U+Cue | Full scans | 3 RS links
Publisher: Sony Classical
One of Leonard Bernstein's special talents was to take a neglected or even derided work and find gold in it. By Oct. 1962, when this recording was made, the Shostakovich Seventh had worn out its fund of good will as an anti-Nazi poster from WW II, sinking into both neglect and derision. But Bernstein earned raves for this performance on LP, and one can see why.
The NY Phil. plays like a band of virtuosos; in terms of sheer performance skill it would be hard to imagine this work done with more elan and conviction. This is all the more amazing because the Seventh contains 74 min. of often leaden, banal, rhetorically inflated music, among the least inspired that Shostakovich ever put into a major symphony. Bernstein conducts with such care and sensitivity that he finds emotional validity in the stiffest passages.
The reviewers who dislike this reading have distorted the facts. This isn't a slow performance. In fact it's faster in every movement than the classic 1953 performance under Mravinsky and faster in 3 out of 4 movements than the recent, very good Temirkanov recording on RCA. The original sonics on the LP were spectcular and continue to be on the CD–it's impossible to tell that this recording is more than 45 years old. Altogether, Bernstein has achieved almost a miracle of renovation in a work that needed a lot of renovation to begin with.
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