{"product_id":"rodzinski-shostakovich-symphony-no-8-western-premiere-1944-pasc736","title":"RODZINSKI Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 (Western Première, 1944) - PASC736","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSHOSTAKOVICH \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 8 in C minor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eLive recording, 1944\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 66:05\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003ePhilharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eArtur Rodziński\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC736.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\n“The much-heralded première performance in the Western Hemisphere of Dimitri\nShostakovich’s new Eighth Symphony was given in Carnegie Hall yesterday\nafternoon by the New York Philharmonic - Symphony, conducted by Artur\nRodziński. The Columbia Broadcasting System, which reportedly paid $10,000\nfor the privilege, broadcast the performance to an estimated 15,000,000\nlisteners. Other CBS broadcasts by transcription will carry the music to\nLatin America, Europe and the Pacific in the near future.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe symphony, which lasted an hour and three minutes, was greeted by the\ncapacity audience with an ovation. There was an intermission speech … and a\nmessage from Shostakovich to Dr. Rodziński was read. The message said in\npart:\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e“In these days of ordeal and hardship—days of decisive battles —music, the\nart we all love, is a means of friendship and understanding between our\ngreat peoples, inspiring them in their heroic struggle against Nazi\nbarbarians for civilization and democracy. With a friendly handshake, I wish\nyou all luck and success.”\n\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the basis of a reading of the score made possible through the courtesy of\nAm-Rus, also of the final rehearsals and the performance yesterday afternoon\nby Dr. Rodziński and the Philharmonic- Symphony Orchestra, it can be said\nthat Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony, on the occasion of its American\npremière, received a superb presentation. This interpretation neglected no\ntechnical or expressive detail, and appeared to reveal every facet of the\ncomposer’s thought. It is conceivable that the composer himself, had he been\npresent, might not have agreed to every tempo and nuance. This we cannot\nknow. But there is every reason to believe that this excellent performance\nprovides wholly authoritative data from which to gain a reliable impression\nof the music and some conception of its value.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Eighth Symphony is not quite as long as the Seventh, which was first\nperformed in America by Toscanini and the NBC Symphony in July, 1942. In the\ninterval much has happened. The Seventh, called the “Leningrad” Symphony,\nwas composed in part in that city while it was under siege. Today Russia\nlives and fights her heroic and exterminating battle against evil on her\nborders, and Mr, Shostakovich’s latest symphony is as timely and as\nsynchronous with events as the one that preceded.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThus it is said that this Eighth is the second part of a prospective\nsymphonic trilogy; that the Seventh was the symphony of the invasion period;\nthat the Eighth is part retrospect of the catastrophic past, but also\nforesight of a happier ¡land, healing its wounds and planning the future. A\nthird symphony, yet to be composed, is envisioned as a “Victory” symphony,\nand there is little more doubt of that symphony taking form than there is of\nthe sure triumph of Russian arms.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe question is now not the purport, fairly evident, of the Eighth Symphony,\nbut the actual character of the music. It is logically less bellicose and\nclimactic than the Seventh…” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e– \u003cb\u003eOlin Downes\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, 3 April 1944\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nAfter such a promising introduction, Olin Downes continued his article to\ntear apart Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony, with an analysis which really\ndoesn’t look to have stood the test of time well. With a good number of\nmusic-lovers now regarding the Eighth as a favourite and possibly the best\nof the composer’s entire symphonic output, one can only feel (if only a\nlittle!) for the poor critic, forced to conjure up an immediate response to\na long and complex work with so very little time for study or contemplation.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere appears to be some confusion abroad as to the work’s first performance\nin the West – i.e. outside of the Soviet Union. A number of sources\nattribute this not to Rodziński but instead to Koussevitzky. Yet the first\nperformances given by Koussevitzky and his Boston Symphony Orchestra took\nplace some three weeks later – and the first of the two was billed as the\n“Boston Premiere” in the concert programme. This recording is indeed the\nsymphony’s concert première outside of the Soviet Union, and as before, the\nradio networks had the money to pay the high fees demanded for scores from\nMoscow, as they had in 1938 when Rodziński conducted the première of the\nFifth Symphony (PASC731).\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy 1944 the conductor was working his magic with the New York Philharmonic,\nand I’m delighted to report just how well-captured they were on the 78rpm\nacetate discs which served as source material for this first ever release of\nwhat was indeed an historic concert.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Rose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRODZINSKI \u003c\/b\u003eShostakovich: Symphony No. 8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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