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To: ecurbh

Ooohh... Mahler? good call.

How about some good 'ol Dmitri Shostakovich? I think it was #5. But my mind is fuzzy on such things.


3,132 posted on 06/08/2004 9:10:57 PM PDT by Ramius (We come to it at last. The great battle of our time.)
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To: Ramius

Yeah, I gots Shosti #5... not a terrific recording, though. I think it the Vienna Philharmonic. True Shostakovich brass requires something along the lines of the Chicago Symphony or NY Philharmonic. Most European orchestral brass sections come across kind of, well, wimpy.

I do have a stupendous recording of Shostakovich #7 by Leonard Bernstein and the Chicago SO. The finale will have you wetting your drawers, I guarantee.


3,133 posted on 06/08/2004 9:16:08 PM PDT by ecurbh ("In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is." R.I.P. Ronald Reagan)
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