12 January 2024

Shostakovich 8 - Alexander Gauk (1959)

 



Returning to the Russia Revelations series to start this year posts, 

here you can find an important DSCH 8 recorded in 1959: 

plus the Festive Overture, composed only five years earlier.



SHOSTAKOVICH

Festive Overture

Symphony no. 8


Grand Symphony Orchestra of  State Radio

ALEXANDER GAUK

October 7, 1959 



FLAC & Scans

4 comments:

Guido said...

https://www.mediafire.com/file/8cd7kh1act74s0q/DSCH8GAUK.zip/file

centuri said...

Excellent version of these 2 works. Fresh tempi !! Thanks a lot.

Scientist_Timpanist said...

Dear Guido,

Happy New Year! I hope 2024 brings good health, happiness and prosperity to you and your family.

Thank you very much for another fabulous performance from the years past.

Best,

Ron

alfred venison said...

thank you very much, love that overture. -cheers, a.v.