Shostakovich: Symphonies No 6 & 12 /Haitink
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Composer: Dmitry ShostakovichConductor: Bernard Haitink
Orchestra: Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2000-07-18
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Symphony No.6, op.54: I Largo
- Symphony No.6, op.54: II Allegro
- Symphony No.6, op.54: III Presto
- Symphony No.12, op.112 'The Year 1917': Revolutionary Petrograd
- Symphony No.12, op.112 'The Year 1917': Razliv
- Symphony No.12, op.112 'The Year 1917': Aurora
- Symphony No.12, op.112 'The Year 1917': The Dawn of Humanity
Free Music Notes for Shostakovich: Symphonies No 6 & 12 /Haitink
Free Music Review: An overly careful Sixth and a good stab at the impossible Twelfth
Hit: 3 Stars
I don't know whehter to admire so many Amazon reviewers for being good Samaritans about the much-maligned Shostakovich Twelfth, or to wonder if they were paid off by the last surviving Communist cell in America. The work is hollow, bombastic, false, and aimless. Critics are a fickle breed, but every single one can't be wrong.
I love the Sixth Sym., however, and cannot get out my head the tragic reading of the first movement as delivered by Mravinsky. Haitink is relatively careful in this great arch of a Largo, finding its intensity only at odd moments. He treads too nimbly in the Scherzo, which needs more edge and bite. The finale is splendidly played by the Concergebouw winds in particular, and although Haitink's tempo isn't the swirling Presto that the composer asks for, even with a bit of a lumber in its gait the movement is a success.
As to the details of the Twelfth, the reviewer who declares this to be the first great performance has overlooked the searing, intense Mravinsky version that has long set the standard. But Decca's sonics are much better, and the Concertgebouw plays with more smoothness and richness than the Leningrad Phil. To his credit, Haiitnk's performance is serious and committed. I doubt that perspectives will ever change toward this work--it seems like empty loyal-Soviet-artist posturing from beginning to end.
Of course, to convincingly glorify Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution at this late date would take the reincarnation of Beethoven. The fact that we must endure this banality for almost 45 min. makes dentistry seem like a lark in spring.
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