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| | Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The symphony was eventually accepted for performance by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and the date of the premiere was set for December 30, 1936 under the baton of the orchestra's then musical director, Fritz Stiedry. | | | The Symphony No. 4 in C Minor (Opus 43) by Dmitri Shostakovich was begun in 1934. | | | Shostakovich and his composing colleague, Moishei Vainberg, premiered the symphony in its two piano reduction at a meeting of the Composers' Union in 1946. |
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| | :: Music :: Repertoire :: Beethoven :: |
| | Symphony No. 4 was heard the first time in a concert in 1807 with a brand new overture and piano concerto. | | | A symphony is the name of one form of classical music. | | | The music kind of symphony grew out of opera overtures (the first instrumental piece in an opera which gives a sneak peak of the music to come) hundreds of years ago. |
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http://www.teaching.com/europe2004/music/repertoire/beethovenrep.cfm
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| | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Piece Detail |
| | Shostakovich's specialty was in music for the theater. | | | The Fourth Symphony is not Shostakovich's longest - the Seventh ("Leningrad") claims that distinction - but with its 20 woodwinds, 17 brass, and large percussion and string sections, it requires the largest orchestra of any of his symphonies. | | | His First Symphony, his graduation exercise at the Leningrad Conservatory, had become legendary after its first performance in 1926, but it hadn't taken firm hold in the repertory, nor had the Second or Third Symphonies, occasional pieces for orchestra and chorus that were symphonies in name only. |
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| | Leonard Bernstein - Discography |
| | Bach: Concertos for Violin, BWV 1041-43 and 1060 | | | Copland: Symphony No. 3, Symphony for Organ and Orchestra | | | SYMPHONY NO. 2, SYMPHONY NO. 3 "THE CAMP MEETING" THE UNANSWERED QUESTION, CENTRAL PARK IN THE DARK |
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http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/bernstein/disc.html
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| | Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4 |
| | The present triple concerto opens with a surprise: there is no tutti introduction; instead, the solo violin enters right away with a lyrical melody, repeated in turn by the oboe and the cello. | | | The Cleveland Orchestra recorded Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony in 1942 with Artur Rodzinski and in 1981 with Lorin Maazel. | | | Contemporary reports of the boy's accomplishments are astounding; listeners simply couldn't believe their ears when they heard Wolfgang improvise, sight-read, play the piano, the organ, and the violin with equal mastery. |
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http://www.clevelandorch.com/images/FTPImages/Performance/program_notes/030603.html
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| | A fitting tribute to Shostakovich |
| | Shostakovich withdrew his symphony shortly before its scheduled premiere in Moscow in December 1936 and didn't release a revised version until 1961, long after Stalin's death. | | | What made Thursday night's performance of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony under Mark Elder's baton so appropriate was not simply the gripping intensity conductor and musicians brought to its desperate, screaming outbursts and dazed funeral march. | | | It was somehow fitting that on the weekend of Mozart's 250th birthday, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed Shostakovich's harrowing Symphony No. 4. |
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/delacoma/cst-ftr-cso28.html
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| | DVD-Audio Review: Beethoven Orchestra Bonn (Kofman) - ‘Shostakovich: Symphony No.5, Symphony No.9’ |
| | Shostakovich was careful not to quote the vocal melody of his song directly, but he echoes its phrases. | | | The positive side is that it allows Shostakovich to stand on his own as a musician, but the negative is that music so tied up in the social and political happenings of its time loses some of its emotional resonance when divorced from those outside factors. | | | He is currently recording a Shostakovich cycle with the Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn, where he is now the music director. |
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http://www.highfidelityreview.com/reviews/review.asp?reviewnumber=19676424
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| | Bernstein's Studio - Young People's Concerts - The Young People's Concerts |
| | Excerpts from Sibelius's Finlandia, Violin Concerto, and Symphony No. 2. | | | Excerpts from Concerto in C major for Diverse Instruments (Vivaldi), Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Bach), Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra (Mozart), Concerto for Violin & Orchestra (Mendelssohn), and Concerto for Orchestra (Bartók). | | | Excerpts from Symphony No. 4 (Tchaikovsky), Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven), Symphony No. |
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http://www.leonardbernstein.com/studio/details.asp
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| | Music under Soviet rule: CDs: Shostakovich Symphony 4 |
| | Fourth Symphony to be issued on CD is at once his most extreme and most compelling. | | | The new version from Praga, which finds Rozhdestvensky back with the USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra in a Czech concert broadcast of 1985, is as bizarre as its predecessors in terms of production, the violins often sounding as if recorded in an adjoining railway terminus. | | | His 1984 version with the USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra (Olympia OCD 156) is garishly spotlit and reverbed in the unrealistic style favoured by Russian producers; yet anyone who can put up with weirdly haloed high strings, ballooning solo instruments, and sometimes leisurely tempos, will learn a lot about the score from this disc. |
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http://www.siue.edu/~aho/musov/discrev/shos4.html
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| | PROM 8 Shostakovich: Symphony 4, Brahms violin Concerto, Viktoria Mullova (vln), Sinaisky, |
| | PROM 8 Shostakovich: Symphony 4, Brahms violin Concerto, Viktoria Mullova (vln), Sinaisky, | | | Shostakovich: Symphony No 4 and Brahms Violin Concerto, Viktoria Mullova (vln), BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky, RAH, 20 July 2000 (MB) | | | The finale recalled the Mahler of the First Symphony more clearly than I have previously encountered, and the final climax teetered on the brink of inexorability. |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2000/july00/prom8.htm
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| | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| | Besides being a composer, Shostakovich was known as a dedicated teacher and family man. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory of Music and, when his former teacher died, commuted back to the Leningrad Conservatory to supervise those students as well. | | | Shostakovich put aside his Symphony No. 4, afraid of the government’s reaction to that too, and wrote Symphony No. 5 in 1937. | | | In 1919, Shostakovich entered the Petrograd Conservatory of Music. |
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http://www.sbgmusic.com/html/teacher/reference/composers/shostako.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Shostakovich - Symphony No 4 [SACD]: Music |
| | Shostakovich - Symphonies Nos 5 & 9; Audio CD ~ Dmitry Shostakovich (Composer), et al | | | Shostakovich - Symphony No 7; Audio CD ~ Dmitry Shostakovich (Composer), et al | | | I have listened to this recording, and I want to review it. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002UY4W8
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| | Angel Records |
| | Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony is one of the most important in his cycle both musically (it’s the first really mature symphony) and historically. | | | For this new recording of the remarkable Fourth Symphony, he conducts one of Europe’s top rank orchestras — the Bayerischer Rundfunk — of which he has recently been appointed music director. | | | For this new recording of the remarkable Fourth Symphony, he conducts one of Europe’s top rank orchestras — the Bayerischer Rundf. |
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http://www.angelrecords.com/detail.asp?ContributorID=4535&UPCCode=724355782427
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| | Untitled Document |
| | Riccardo Chailly has now left the Royal Concertgebouw and this is his final recording as Music Director, as well as the last installment in his Mahler cycle for Decca; surprisingly his recordings of symphonies 1, 4 and 6 are no longer in the catalog; symphony 4 was recorded as recently as 1999. | | | Like the recent Symphony 3, this boasts an uncommonly sonorous sound for the orchestra, incredibly rich strings, woodwinds basking in the warm acoustics of the famed hall. | | | Symphony No. 4 is a rough, craggy, episodic work of great power, scored for a huge orchestra. |
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http://classicalcdreview.com/MC130.html
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| | Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music |
| | Symphony No. 4 "1942"; Symphony No. 5 "Joyous"; Decatur at Algiers | | | As in his earlier recording of the First and Sixth symphonies, Hugh Wolff finds the music's American essence in its playfulness, jazz rhythms, and, in the poignant slow movement, in a personal and modern unsettledness peculiar to the American psyche. | | | But there's a deeper level here, a level that Theodore Kuchar and the National Symphony of the Ukraine never penetrate, being perfectly content to play the music as if it were merely Shostakovich with an accent. |
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http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=2479
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| | Decca Music Group - New Release |
| | Begun in September 1935 Shostakovich's 4th Symphony was to be a crucial turning point - both in his life and his music. | | | The planned first performance of the 4th Symphony by the Leningrad Philharmonic did not take place, and it was not until 1961 that Kondrashin conducted a reconstructed account of the lost symphony in Moscow. | | | Valery Gergiev - today's outstanding champion of the music of Shostakovich - leads the Kirov orchestra in a blazing account of the first of the War Symphonies. |
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http://www.deccaclassics.com/newsandnewreleases/november2004/4708422.html
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| | Shostakovich premiere |
| | Boris Tishchenko was one of Shostakovich's keenest protégés and he played a vital part in keeping the little-known symphony alive, particularly in its arrangement for two pianos. | | | The western premiere of Shostakovich's Symphony No 4 will take place this Sunday (26 June) at the University of Cambridge's West Road Concert Hall. | | | The symphony was not performed until December 1961, eight years after Stalin's death. |
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http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2005062201
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| | Program Notes |
| | Thus the symphony drives to its conclusion, forward-thrusting yet measured, always new in detail yet organically unified, stern, noble, and with that sense of inevitability that marks the greatest music. | | | The American premiere was conducted by Walter Damrosch with the New York Symphony on December 11, 1886. | | | When he writes a passacaglia—which must have seemed sheer madness to the up-to-date Wagnerians—he does so like a man composing living music, with no dust of antiquarianism about it. |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Shostakovich: Symphony no 4 / Jansons, Bavarian Radio SO at Epinions.com |
| | Newly anointed to helm the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (taking over from Lorin Maazel) and the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam (taking over from Riccardo Chailly), he recorded the Shostakovich 4th with the former band in 2004. | | | If you have acquired the taste for Shostakovich's musical language (say, via his Preludes and Fugues), then you will find this symphony in this version in all its glorious rawness to be simply awesome. | | | Disclaimer: This review is not a history of-or introduction to-the music of Shostakovich. |
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http://www.epinions.com/content_181062110852
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| | BBC - Radio 3 - Afternoon Performance - BBC Symphony Orchestra |
| | Sandy Burnett presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra performing Bartok's Four Pieces for Orchestra, Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand and Shostakovich's Symphony No 4 in Cm, as part of a concert the BBC Symphony Orchestra gave at the Barbican in December last year. | | | Shostakovich: Symphony No 4 in Cm Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) | | | All this week, the programme features piano concertos. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/afternoonperformance/pip/2m0j3
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| | JS Online: Energy, mastery on display at MSO |
| | This subliminal conception of the world as chaotic and arbitrary makes the Symphony No. 4 one of the most unsettling pieces of music ever conceived. | | | The Milwaukee Symphony, led by the relentlessly focused Vassily Sinaisky, played this hourlong symphony from 1936 for the first time Friday evening. | | | Lilya Zilberstein opened the program with the best performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 that I have ever heard. |
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http://www.jsonline.com/enter/performingarts/mar01/mso31033001.asp?format=print
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| | Shostakovich: Symphony No.4 - Sinfonirorchester of WDR / Rudolf Barshai - Buy @ SmokeCDs.com music cd store |
| | Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony, composed in 1936, was not approved of by the Stalinist Russian party as it did not meet the requirements of approved music which '... | | | Shostakovich: Symphony No.4 - Sinfonirorchester of WDR / Rudolf Barshai - Buy @ SmokeCDs.com music cd store | | | SmokeCDs.com Online Music Store - the best music releases, weekly reviews by experts, mp3 samples, DVDs and merchandise. |
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http://www.smokecds.com/cd/34433
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| | Amazon.com: Georg Solti Conducts Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 & Shostakovich Symphony No. 10: DVD: Georg Solti,Bavarian ... |
| | In a live recording from the Philharmonie concert hall of the Gasteig-Kulturzentrum in Munich, Sir Georg Solti conducts the Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 in A Op. | | | Solti came to conduct the music of Shostakovich only late in life; and while he never became a definitive interpreter of the composer, his take on the 20th-century's greatest symphonist is definitely worth hearing. | | | These two 1992 performances, recorded with the Bavarian Radio Symphonic Orchestra, ably demonstrate that Solti's driving manner was, despite the claims of his detractors, wedded to a superb attention to the music. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000051S7B?v=glance
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| | 2004 Reading Sessions |
| | Many of you remember his highly emotional reading of the Shostakovich 7th Symphony back in 1998, the 15th Symphony in 2000 and the 12th Symphony in 2002. | | | The Shostakovich Symphony No. 4 is very seldom performed because it requires a HUGE orchestra. | | | Perennial favorite Alexei Girsh returns to lead his 4th reading session of Shostakovich symphonies. |
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http://www.nwmahlerfestival.org/2004_reading_sessions.htm
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| | CDs (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Indeed, so apprehensive was Shostakovich about public reaction to this hour-long, aggressively dissonant nightmare that he suppressed all performances until 1961, a full 25 years after the symphony was finished. | | | Nobody has ever made the symphony sound so fierce, frenzied and desperately inspired as Valery Gergiev does in his new recording with the Kirov Orchestra. | | | Nobody has ever called Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4 a "perfect" composition. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51629-2004Dec9_2.html
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| | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| | The last two symphonies and the last four quartets, as well as other chamber pieces and songs, belong to a late period of spare texture, slowness and gravity, often used explicitly in images of death: Symphony no.14 is a song cycle on mortality, though no.15 remains more enigmatic in its open quotations from | | | Of the next four symphonies, no.7 is an epic with an uplifting war-victory programme (it was begun in besieged Leningrad), while the others display more openly a dichotomy between optimism and introspective doubt, expressed with varying shades of irony. | | | But the culminating achievement of these quick-witted, nervy years was his second opera The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, where high emotion and acid parody are brought together in a score of immense brilliance. |
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| | DSCH 14 Shostakovich CD Reviews - Symphony No. 4 |
| | Full details are contained in my report in DSCH No. 15 on misattributed recordings on the Praga label. | | | Even if Praga's source for these recordings is as they claim, there is no reason to put up with audience noise in the symphony when the indistinguishable Melodiya performance comes with clean (albeit bizarrely balanced) acoustics. | | | If the Fourth Symphony presented here is not in fact Rozhdestvensky's Melodiya studio recording (MCD 156, reissued on Melodiya two-fer 74321-63462-2) with a live-audience track superimposed, then the conductor must keep a metronome at his podium! |
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http://www.dschjournal.com/reviews/rvs14scarlatti.htm
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| | Past Seasons |
| | Prokofiev - Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra, Carol Leone, soloist | | | Meadows Symphony Orchestra at the Meyerson Symphony Center with Chorus | | | Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 1 in Eb April 21, 2005 |
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http://www.smu.edu/meadows/music/mso/past.html
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| | ALS at BPL -- Masterworks 2004-2005 |
| | Classical Tchaikovsky: Concerto no. 1 for piano and orchestra in B-flat minor, op. | | | October 29 and 30, 2004 Mendelssohn Symphony no. 3 | | | April 29 and 30, 2005 Brahms Symphony no. 4 |
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| | PYSO: Auditions and Membership |
| | Members of the orchestra may participate in PYSO's chamber music program, receive coachings, and perform in special chamber music concerts. | | | Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4, slow movement bassoon solo | | | Beethoven Symphony No. 5, 3 excerpts from Andante con moto |
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| | ArkivMusic Aho: Chinese Songs, Symphony No 4 / Vahevaara, Vänskä, Et Al |
| | As always with BIS' recordings in its ongoing Aho cycle, the Lahti Symphony under Osmo Vänskä plays this music with the loving care that comes from close, ongoing association with the composer, and the sonics are marvelous. | | | The first movement's fugal exposition reveals a continuation of that concern with musical shape and form already quite evident in Aho's previous symphonies. | | | Soprano Tiina Vahevaara sings them very beautifully; the cycle should enter the concert repertoire forthwith. |
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http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=18440
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| | Telegraph Arts Classical CDs of the week: Shostakovich and more |
| | EMI's studio recording also deals more satisfyingly with Shostakovich's many-layered textures than the Mariinsky Theatre allows for the Kirov Orchestra (recorded live). | | | Classical CDs of the week: Shostakovich and more | | | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, cond Mariss Jansons, EMI 5 57824 2, £12.99 |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/02/21/bmclasscds19.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/02/21/ixartleft.html
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| | Cedar Rapids Symphony |
| | Many facets of the symphony community will be on hand to witness the long anticipated announcement and be among the first to welcome the new maestro. | | | Introduce your children to the magic of the symphony through a fun and educational concert exploring the early life of child prodigy Mozart. | | | Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony, an epic journey from despair to triumph, rounds out the program with one of the most thrilling finales ever written. |
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| | Erin R. Freeman |
| | Choral: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus (1990-2001), Chamber Chorus and Robert Shaw Memorial Singers (1999-2001); Accepted into ASOC as a High School Senior; Oregon Bach Festival Chorus (2001); Conductors: Robert Shaw, Roberto Abbado, John Nelson, Robert King, Robert Spano, Yoel Levi, Donald Runnicles, Ann Howard Jones, Helmut Rilling, and Bernard Labadie. | | | Performance highlights for 2004-2005 season include performances of Franck Symphony in D Minor, Haydn Symphony 104, and Prokofiev | | | Repertoire includes Shostakovich Festive Overture and Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 |
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http://www.novoartists.com/freeman.html
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| | MDT - AND4090, Andante CD |
| | This set includes symphonies and symphonic fragments by Shostakovich (among them a world premiere recording), recorded by the BBC in 1998. | | | The programme comprises the fourth symphony of 1936, the rare ‘Five Fragments’, and the fifteenth symphony composed when Shostakovich knew he was dying. | | | He was a close friend of the composer, and remains one of the most fervent advocates of his music. |
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http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product/AND4090.htm
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| | CLASSIC FM : WCNY - Central New York's Own - Public Television |
| | GOTTSCHALK: Symphony No. 1, “A Night in the Tropics” (NAX) CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 2 in f minor (RCA) WEBER: Symphony No. 2 in C (MHS) JONGEN: Symphonie Concertante for Organ and Orchestra (T-A) | | | CARTER: Allegro scorrevole SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 4 in d minor BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D | | | MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 13 in C (LON) SCHUBERT: Violin Sonatina No. 2 in a minor (ABQ) |
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| | Welcome to The Florida Orchestra |
| | These include Strauss' Don Juan, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8, Bruckner's Symphony No. 7, Mahler's Symphony No. 4, and Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5, the last of which will be conducted by Jajha Ling. | | | Not to take away from the importance of other works mentioned thus far, the orchestra has some symphonic works that will allow its musicians to show their stuff. | | | Each of the Masterworks programs are performed in each of the three principal concert facilities in the Tampa Bay area: Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg; Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater; and Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center¹s Carol Morsani Hall in Tampa. |
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http://www.floridaorchestra.org/2004-05/symphonies.html
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| | Used : Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 |
| | by: Benjamin Britten, Dmitry Shostakovich, Simon Rattle, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra |
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| | European Union Youth Orchestra |
| | Repertoire to include Brahms Tragic Overture, Brahms Symphony No. 3, Sibelius Symphony No. 5 and Bruckner Symphony No. 7 |
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| | Press & News - Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra |
| | RACHMANINOFF Concerto No. 3 in D Minor for Piano & Orchestra, Op. | | | The specific programs, concert times, and artists are as follows: | | | The masterworks programmed in the Indianapolis Symphonyâs Russian Festival capture the powerful drama that is emblematic of the nationalistic Russian musical style, and these works also serve as commentary that reflects to socio-political climate of the times in which they were written. |
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| | WUOT 91.9 fm Knoxville TN |
| | 2:03 MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 22, Eb, K. 482 2:39 SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. | | | Kirk Trevor, Conductor (final concert as Music Director) | | | 15 A comparative survey of the recordings of the Third Symphony of Roy Harris |
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| | LSO - Sun 5 Feb 2006 7.30pm Barbican Hall, London. MOZART, SHOSTAKOVICH - London Symphony Orchestra |
| | Download Shostakovich Symphonies on LSO Live from iTunes | | | The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2003, London Symphony Orchestra. | | | Twenty-five years separate the completion of Shostakovich’s powerful and disturbing Fourth Symphony from its premiere, the composer having originally withdrawn it as too uncompromising for the Stalinist 1930s; yet, written at a time of supreme confidence in his own ability, it is a work of Mahlerian sweep and vision. |
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