I love how that bolero-march tune builds into a furious action piece. And the amount of noise the brass and percussion make will blow you, and the neighbors down the street away.

The final two to three minutes of this symphony is also pretty awesome!

I've heard a couple of recordings of this symphony but Leonard Bernstein's recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (DG) is the one I come back to the most.

That is all.

> I love how that bolero-march tune builds into a furious action piece. And
> the amount of noise the brass and percussion make will blow you, and the
> neighbors down the street away.

> The final two to three minutes of this symphony is also pretty awesome!

> I've heard a couple of recordings of this symphony but Leonard Bernstein's
> recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (DG) is the one I come back
> to the most.

> That is all.

Bernstein's recording with the CSO is excellent, although my heart goes to the more recent recording of Andris Nelsons with the Boston Symphony. In fact, his cycle with the BSO is one of the best ones in recent memory, IMO.

> Bernstein's recording with the CSO is excellent, although my heart goes to
> the more recent recording of Andris Nelsons with the Boston Symphony. In
> fact, his cycle with the BSO is one of the best ones in recent memory,
> IMO.

I've heard Andris Nelson's 5th, 8th, 9th, and 10th and those recordings are fantastic. I should check out the rest of his cycle! Thanks!

I've been making my way through Vasily Petrenko's cycle with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra recently and those recordings are wonderful too!

> I love how that bolero-march tune builds into a furious action piece. And
> the amount of noise the brass and percussion make will blow you, and the
> neighbors down the street away.

> The final two to three minutes of this symphony is also pretty awesome!

> I've heard a couple of recordings of this symphony but Leonard Bernstein's
> recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (DG) is the one I come back
> to the most.

> That is all.

Yup. That's the best recording, and my god will I never get tired of that first movement. No piece of classical music has ever reached that level of full-throated, relentless fury.

I...have not heard this at all!

Oops.

> I love how that bolero-march tune builds into a furious action piece. And
> the amount of noise the brass and percussion make will blow you, and the
> neighbors down the street away.

> The final two to three minutes of this symphony is also pretty awesome!

> I've heard a couple of recordings of this symphony but Leonard Bernstein's
> recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (DG) is the one I come back
> to the most.

> That is all.

I believe that the Top3 performances/recordings of D. Shostakovich's 7th Symphony are :

K. Ivanov & the USSR State S.O.
https://youtu.be/81XaumNDdZ0?si=IDL6lpVyRWq1PWcC

E. Svetlanov & the USSR State S.O.
https://youtu.be/vrQZTsRkaiM?si=0ihL-SW3YnwVOlqP

D. Kitayenko & Cologne G.O.
https://youtu.be/5erdRZ9Z0S0?si=6TQ0DhCwnlJAfnQk

/

also magnificent-excellent-great are :

E. Svetlanov with Swedish Radio S.O.
https://youtu.be/Tss4ETLd95w?si=rtdzRd_X-jlKx8P1

G. Rozhdestvensky with the USSR MOC S.O.
https://youtu.be/YFD_HgQwqBk?si=6q8ymOUTmDiJSlZ5

Y. Termikanov with St. Petersburg P.O.
https://youtu.be/HyyRDvOmoCA?si=w-X52ruy6QxIQ5gG

K. Kondrashin with Moscow P.O.
https://youtu.be/J1ynT71JsOI?si=VUDi5Pcz6DhRrE-w

G. Cherkasov with Moscow Radio S.O.
https://youtu.be/9XS2AaHpfP4?si=UhDXKe896MQTf8YD

K. Masur with New York P.
https://youtu.be/jh0cnrQMLkk?si=vIMmaH8dKwdXnp53

N. Jarvi with Royal Scottish N.O.
https://youtu.be/1rAK_dVwNhI?si=SL13X5DNa2Zlzc91

M. Jansons with Leningrad P.O.
https://youtu.be/bAGjet-bNaw?si=a6gjXIKKFcSWIQIt

E. Mravinsky with Leningrad P.O.
https://youtu.be/CS0UGnaPfMI?si=TYRosu7KXRayPgka

(Message edited on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, at 4:54 p.m.)

> I believe that the Top3 performances/recordings of D. Shostakovich's 7th
> Symphony are :

> K. Ivanov & the USSR State S.O.
> https://youtu.be/81XaumNDdZ0?si=IDL6lpVyRWq1PWcC

> E. Svetlanov & the USSR State S.O.
> https://youtu.be/vrQZTsRkaiM?si=0ihL-SW3YnwVOlqP

> D. Kitayenko & Cologne G.O.
> https://youtu.be/5erdRZ9Z0S0?si=6TQ0DhCwnlJAfnQk

> /

> also magnificent-excellent-great are :

> E. Svetlanov with Swedish Radio S.O.
> https://youtu.be/Tss4ETLd95w?si=rtdzRd_X-jlKx8P1

> G. Rozhdestvensky with the USSR MOC S.O.
> https://youtu.be/YFD_HgQwqBk?si=6q8ymOUTmDiJSlZ5

> Y. Termikanov with St. Petersburg P.O.
> https://youtu.be/HyyRDvOmoCA?si=w-X52ruy6QxIQ5gG

> K. Kondrashin with Moscow P.O.
> https://youtu.be/J1ynT71JsOI?si=VUDi5Pcz6DhRrE-w

> G. Cherkasov with Moscow Radio S.O.
> https://youtu.be/9XS2AaHpfP4?si=UhDXKe896MQTf8YD

> K. Masur with New York P.
> https://youtu.be/jh0cnrQMLkk?si=vIMmaH8dKwdXnp53

> N. Jarvi with Royal Scottish N.O.
> https://youtu.be/1rAK_dVwNhI?si=SL13X5DNa2Zlzc91

> M. Jansons with Leningrad P.O.
> https://youtu.be/bAGjet-bNaw?si=a6gjXIKKFcSWIQIt

> E. Mravinsky with Leningrad P.O.
> https://youtu.be/CS0UGnaPfMI?si=TYRosu7KXRayPgka

I'd add Klaus Mäkelä with the hr-Sinfonieorchester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB3zR_X25UU

> I'd add Klaus Mäkelä with the hr-Sinfonieorchester:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB3zR_X25UU

from the modern era or live recordings/performances yes i remember that this is very good, is a talented conductor & great german orchestra with a superb youtube-channel by FR ! the 9 Beethoven's Symphonies by A. Orozco-E. are fantastic !
https://youtu.be/fhHcty9OM-0?si=UYfPCOni3RmXMDid

personally my favourite modern-live S7 is by V. Gergiev with Mariinsky T.O.
https://youtu.be/LlRq1yPCqxY?si=h6uUNi1PJNMp36dT