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    From Robert Marshall@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 12 13:54:52 2025
    I recently found the scores of the Myaskowsky piano sonatas (9 of them) in local
    library whilst looking for something else. Very similar timeline to
    Prokofiv's 9. I see that my local professional Murray MacLachlan has
    recorded the set - are there any recommended other versions?

    What about the Myaskowsky symphonies,all 27 of them, any particular ones I should start
    with, and by who? I see wikipedia talks about a Svetlanov set.

    Robert
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  • From Robert Marshall@21:1/5 to DeepBlue on Mon Jan 13 08:01:57 2025
    On Mon, Jan 13 2025, DeepBlue <dan.koren@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:54:52 +0000, Robert Marshall wrote:

    What about the Myaskowsky symphonies, all
    27 of them, any particular ones I should
    start with, and by who? I see wikipedia
    talks about a Svetlanov set.

    IMHO the most efficient approach for getting
    to know composers with vast symphonic outputs
    is to test the water by listening to their last
    symphony.

    In theor, the last symphony is the peak of their
    creative work. If you like it or find it worth
    hearing wirk your way back to earlier symphonies.

    Here is the 27th:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbjAvZ8Zk0E

    I am not a fan.


    Though his last symphony (of 1949) was written after the 1947
    party congress where he Prokofiev and Shostakovitch were lambasted
    for their 'formalist' tendencies maybe it had an effect? Certainly the 9th piano sonata also written in '49 takes simplicity to an extreme.

    I shall try the 24th (the 25th was also written before 1947 but revised
    in 49).

    Robert
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  • From Rachmaninoff@21:1/5 to DeepBlue on Sun Jan 19 21:04:19 2025
    On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 5:31:10 +0000, DeepBlue wrote:

    On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:54:52 +0000, Robert Marshall wrote:

    What about the Myaskowsky symphonies, all
    27 of them, any particular ones I should
    start with, and by who? I see wikipedia
    talks about a Svetlanov set.

    IMHO the most efficient approach for getting
    to know composers with vast symphonic outputs
    is to test the water by listening to their last
    symphony.

    In theor, the last symphony is the peak of their
    creative work. If you like it or find it worth
    hearing wirk your way back to earlier symphonies.

    That even works with the snippet of Sibelius's 8th!

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