Previn conducts the pre-WWII Vaughan Williams Fourth Symphony (April 10, 1935/Boult). Houston SO, 1969, Carnegie Hall…
Holocaust Memorial Day. Shostakovich Symphony No.8 (1943) in one of its greatest recordings: LSO & André Previn. LP: HMV ASD2917 (released 1973).
What about Mravinsky’s Leningrad recordings, remarkable all of them in different ways.
No doubt. I’ll see what’s on YT for Mravinsky. However, I thought ‘Shos 8’ was appropriate and this Previn (preferable to his DG remake) has long been a go-to choice for me; more recently Kurt Sanderling in Berlin.
https://www.colinscolumn.com/kurt-sanderling-1912-2011-conducts-the-berliner-philharmoniker-in-shostakovichs-symphony-no-8-a-performance-from-1997/
Agree with all those choices. And the Previn has the most exciting second scherzo even if it isn’t what the composer intended. Fond and respectful regards to you both.
Thanks Rob, I opted for this…
https://www.colinscolumn.com/shostakovichs-symphony-no-8-leningrad-philharmonic-mravinsky-undated-film/
Col
I agree that this is an amazing performance by the LSO under Previn’s baton and was the first time i heard this wonderful symphony. The only downside is that I later, thanks to Rudolf Barshai, discovered that Previn uses the old incorrect Breitkopf score. I have a copy of that old score in which Rudolf wrote, for me, the corrections which Shostakovich had written, for him, into his score (which he showed me!). The most important change is right at the end of the symphony in bar 558 where the minim should be a drop down to a C# not on up to the written E# and which thereby, as I hear it, echoes the muted trumpet at the end of the first movement