I bought this in the late 1960's on recommendation from a friend. I still have my vinyl recording of it but no player, I've been searching for ages for a digital copy to play to my wife whom I've bored rigid with tales of the emotion this piece conveys, now she understands what I've been driving at but could not convey. Thank you very much indeed for posting it, it's wonderful.
I first heard this back in the 1970's when my roommate at college - Russian Orthodox - introduced me to this recording. I love this recording. I've never heard its equal. Very powerful.
Thank you for posting this! I've got the Gerard Schwarz/Seattle Symphony Orchestra rendition but have read that this version, the original premier, outdoes that recording. Finally, I get to hear it without trying to track down a vinyl and a player for it!
I really don't know. He was a soloist with the Moscow Radio for a while, and I think he made one opera recording, some obscure Russian opera. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory after a stint in the Soviet navy. That's all I know. I think his participation in premieres of certain works that displeased the authorities may have damaged his career, but that's only a theory.
Strange there are so few recordings by major conductors on the market for this work. Can we ever expect a recording by Gergiev for example? As a cantata, it has nothing to envy to the more famed Alexandre Newsky cantata. This Kondrashin recording outdoes any other I've heard. Unfortunately not available as a single CD. Thank you so much for this wonderful upload!!
@DeliciousManager I realize this comment is a year late... You can tell how often I check. Well, let's just say that when we performed it at the University of Houston with Yevgeny present, the piece was an hour long. And I am not mistaking it for another piece. I still remember the Russian Clinic we had with him... Being taught to yell out curses in Russian, the four pages of shrieks, his explaination of the story behind the music. The whole experience is engrained in me.
Melodiya have reissued the complete cycle of symphonies on CD conducted by Kondrashin. This version of the Execution of Stepan Razin is also in the box, as well as Oistrakh in the 2nd Violin Concerto. If you can find it don't hesitate, it's indispensible
The whole of Stepan Razin is not an hour long - it's half an hour. You're probably mixing it up with the 13th Symphony, which also uses setting of Yevtushenko poems. THAT lasts an hour. Neither of them are 'songs'.
Such a great piece and so little known.
WOW
Very impressive!!!
I bought this in the late 1960's on recommendation from a friend. I still have my vinyl recording of it but no player, I've been searching for ages for a digital copy to play to my wife whom I've bored rigid with tales of the emotion this piece conveys, now she understands what I've been driving at but could not convey. Thank you very much indeed for posting it, it's wonderful.
I first heard this back in the 1970's when my roommate at college - Russian Orthodox - introduced me to this recording. I love this recording. I've never heard its equal. Very powerful.
I love it!
World premiere recording 1965- Kondrashin, Moscow Phil, Vitaliy Gromadsky, bass.
amazing piece of a great composer
Thank you for posting this! I've got the Gerard Schwarz/Seattle Symphony Orchestra rendition but have read that this version, the original premier, outdoes that recording. Finally, I get to hear it without trying to track down a vinyl and a player for it!
I really don't know. He was a soloist with the Moscow Radio for a while, and I think he made one opera recording, some obscure Russian opera. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory after a stint in the Soviet navy. That's all I know. I think his participation in premieres of certain works that displeased the authorities may have damaged his career, but that's only a theory.
Strange there are so few recordings by major conductors on the market for this work. Can we ever expect a recording by Gergiev for example? As a cantata, it has nothing to envy to the more famed Alexandre Newsky cantata. This Kondrashin recording outdoes any other I've heard. Unfortunately not available as a single CD. Thank you so much for this wonderful upload!!
@DeliciousManager I realize this comment is a year late... You can tell how often I check. Well, let's just say that when we performed it at the University of Houston with Yevgeny present, the piece was an hour long. And I am not mistaking it for another piece. I still remember the Russian Clinic we had with him... Being taught to yell out curses in Russian, the four pages of shrieks, his explaination of the story behind the music. The whole experience is engrained in me.
Melodiya have reissued the complete cycle of symphonies on CD conducted by Kondrashin. This version of the Execution of Stepan Razin is also in the box, as well as Oistrakh in the 2nd Violin Concerto. If you can find it don't hesitate, it's indispensible
The Gromadsky/Kondrashin performance can be purchased as a download for eight dollars from "High Definition Tape Transfers".
Incrível
I tried to find more information about Gromadsky, but I never found anything about him. What happened with him and his career?
Stenka is alive with this !!
Шостакович пиздец как крут!
Like the spitting chorus at 4:18. Nothing quite like it in music.
Lucky you!
Gromadsky was such a wonderful bass. I wonder if his career would have gone further had he not stood up to the cultural technocrats.
and by who is the painting?
The whole of Stepan Razin is not an hour long - it's half an hour. You're probably mixing it up with the 13th Symphony, which also uses setting of Yevtushenko poems. THAT lasts an hour. Neither of them are 'songs'.
The bass is Nesterenko?
Советую послушать эту версию v=_oOk15PI6aA , намного лучше.
Vitaly Gromadsky.