Violin concertos/Symphonies....

Looking for robust, frantic, aggressive,heavy, peformances/recordings...mono preferred but stereo ok ..any suggestions?

phasecorrect12-04-2008 1:42am

jtimothya Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 612 posts 12-04-2008 at 04:10am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Try the 4th movement of Shostakovich's Symphony No.12: "step by ponderous step, the inexorable carapace of proletarian praxis rides athwart the imperial walker of historical inevitability."
jlamb Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 150 posts 12-04-2008 at 04:15am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete emerson string quartet:shostakovich-string quartet no. 8 on emi.
rushton Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,445 posts 12-04-2008 at 04:31am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Bernstein's performance of Shostakovich's 5th Symphony Dorati's performance of Stravinsky's Firebird Ballet Solti's performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring "Mars" movement from Holst's "The Planets" (Mehta or Previn) Janacek's Taras Bulba Berlioz's Symphonie Fantatique (Kojian/UtahSym, Ref Recording) Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain (Reiner, Solti, or Liebowitz) Pettersson's Symphony No. 7 (Dorati) Prokofiev's Scythian Suite
brownsfan Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,508 posts 12-04-2008 at 10:40am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Eugen Jochum's Bruckner 9th with the Staatskapella Dresden. His Bruckner 1st with the same orchestra is also mighty good. Also try Jochum's Bruckner Te Deum with the Berlin Philharmonic.