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| | Shostakovich's fifth symphony |
 | | It is said that the applause after the symphony finished was longer than the symphony itself, so overcome were the audience with the emotion of having listened to a piece of music that wasn't merely political hackwork, and that wasn't afraid to display some real human emotion. | | | The symphony was first performed in Leningrad on 21 November 1937. | | | `The idea behind my symphony is the making of a man. I saw him, with all his experience, at the centre of the work, which is lyrical from beginning to end. |
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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/music/shostakovich/fifth-symphony.html
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| | Classical Notes - Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, Classical Classics, Peter Gutmann |
| | The Fifth Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) | | | His public music (symphonies, ballets, concertos) mostly retreated to the safety of ideologically-correct programs and crowd-pleasing music. | | | Shostakovich's brilliance and originality emerged in his very first symphony, written at age 19 as a graduation exercise from the Leningrad music conservatory. |
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http://www.classicalnotes.net/classics/shostafifth.html
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| | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| | Sollertinsky introduced Shostakovich to the music of Gustav Mahler, which had a strong influence on his music from the Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich)Fourth Symphony/ onwards. | | | The Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich)Fifth Symphony of 1937 seems something of a compromise: it is not overtly political, either for or against the regime, and it is musically conservative without being simplistic. | | | The Symphony No. 8 (Shostakovich)Eighth Symphony of that year is a long and dark work, which proved to be too dark for the authorities. |
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| | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5/Piano Concerto No. 2 (DE 3246) |
| | The Second Piano Concerto showcases a lighter side of Shostakovich: the orchestra is chamber-sized, and the music exhibits a youthful spirit and irrepressible energy. | | | The Fifth Symphony, finished by Shostakovich in 1937, is probably the most frequently performed of his symphonies, and it's easy to hear why. | | | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5/Piano Concerto No. 2 (DE 3246) |
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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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| | Rico Saccani - Shostakovich - Symphony No 5, Racmaninov - Piano Concerto No 1 |
| | Shostakovich and Rachmaninov, two of the greatest 20th Century Russian composers, were profoundly affected by the Revolution and their music was led in very different directions as a result. | | | Rico Saccani - Shostakovich - Symphony No 5, Racmaninov - Piano Concerto No 1 | | | Shostakovich - Symphony No 5, Racmaninov - Piano Concerto No 1 |
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| | JasonOnline [My Favourite...] |
| | - symphony no. 3 "organ", piano concerto nos. | | | - helios overture, saga-dream, rhapsody overture : an imaginary journey to the faroe islands, symphonies 1-6, alaadin suite | | | - valse triste, andante festivo, lemminkainen suite, finlandia, all sibelius' symphonies, kalelia suite, nightride and sunrise, swanwhite suite, etc. |
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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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| | Oregon Symphony: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 |
| | Although this symphony is an "absolute" piece of music (i.e., there is no extra-musical story or narrative attached to it), Shostakovich did include a brief description of "a lengthy spiritual battle, crowned by victory" in the program notes. | | | A co-commission of the New York City Ballet, the London Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra, Adams wrote the Violin Concerto between January 7 and November 1 of 1993. | | | In the Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Shostakovich returns to a more classical style of composition. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Music: Shostakovich: Symphony No.11 |
| | Some Shostakovich symphonies (certainly the 1st, 5th, 8th and 10th, and perhaps the 6th and 9th) are heard in the concert hall much more frequently than this work, or for that matter, his other "war" symphony, the 7th ("Leningrad") Symphony. | | | Shostakovich's Symphony No.11 was inspired by what history books call the Revolution of 1905, a tumultuous time in Russian history sparked by the shooting of hundreds of demonstrators by the Tsar's troops on January 9 of that year (the original Bloody Sunday). | | | Shostakovich - Symphony No 5; Audio CD ~ London Symphony Orchestra, et al |
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| | MobileGamer.biz :: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 |
| | I love Shostakovich, and I listen eagerly to all his symphonies except for the acknowledged duds--the Seventh and Twelfth--and socialist hackwork--the Third and Eleventh. | | | This is music entirely different to the overwhelmingly tense and strident fourth symphony, to the melancholy introspection of the fifth symphony (whose "triumphant" finale, even, raises more questions than it solves), to the restless unease of the sixth. | | | Whatever the external circumstances of the composer's life before and during the composition of the seventh symphony, he is saying something in this music here, which is in sharp contrast to the symphonies immediately preceding. |
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| | Guardian Shostakovich: Symphony no 5; Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 8 , LSO/ BBCSO/ Stokowski |
| | Shostakovich: Symphony no 5; Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 8, LSO/ BBCSO/ Stokowski | | | This is generally counted as one of the composer's more relaxed symphonies - it was written when he was 83 - yet Stokowski finds a power and bite in the writing that recall the dramatic thrust of the chilling Sixth Symphony. | | | Classical CD Shostakovich: Symphony no 5; Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 8, LSO/ BBCSO/ Stokowski |
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| | Shostakovich |
| | With this last orchestra he has recorded all the Tchaikovsky symphonies for BBC Television. | | | He terminated rehearsals of his new Fourth Symphony, put it in a drawer for a quarter of a century, and withdrew into silence. | | | He was born in Riga in 1943 and became music director of the Oslo Philharmonic in the late 1970s, since when the orchestra has risen to being one of international status. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Music: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 8 [Import] |
| | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 8 [Import] | | | Dmitry Shostakovich (Composer), Ralph Vaughan Williams (Composer), Leopold Stokowski (Conductor), BBC Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra) | | | Amazon.ca: Music: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 8 [Import] |
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| | SA-CD.net - Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9 - Gergiev |
| | When put next to Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 - Kitajenko or Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 - Yablonsky, the Gergiev/Shostakovich 5 is fairly lame sonically. | | | In the Shostakovich Fifth, the woodwinds are so forward, it's like the orchestra is placed in front of the listener, but the woodwinds blast away right next to his ears. | | | The Shostakovich Ninth was recorded in Russia, and sounds much better. |
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| | Symphony No. 5 |
| | Rachmaninoff worked on the Symphony in Dresden and at Ivanovka in 1906 and '07. | | | Before that point is reached, the horn, English horn and violin are given eloquent solo passages, and there is an extended reverie for the clarinet, recalling its memorable solos earlier in the movement. | | | It was during the Dresden period that both the Second Symphony and the tone poem The Isle of the Dead were composed. |
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| | Charleston Area Convention & Visitor Bureau - Charleston, SC |
| | The Charleston Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director David Stahl, will present a powerful concert of Russian works as part of their Masterworks Series on Saturday, January 8 at 8pm at the Gaillard Auditorium. | | | No musical work better captures the weight of history than Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. | | | PROGRAM:Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovich |
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| | Program Notes |
| | He composed the Symphony No. 5 in 1901-02 and led the first performance with the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne on October 18, 1904, having conducted a read-through with the Vienna Philharmonic earlier that year. | | | In the First Symphony, the orchestra plays long passages from Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, and the Second, Third, and Fourth symphonies actually include singing. | | | Theodor W. Adorno with grim humor refers to this passage as “pogrom music.” An attempt to introduce a loftier strain is quickly swept aside in the turmoil. |
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| | DVD AUDIO Shostakovich Sym 5/6 & Brummer |
| | The Shostakovich DVD gives the listener a choice of 5.1 surround sound or two high resolution stereo channels, but on my player (Rotel RDV 1080) there was no way to make a choice; it defaulted to the surround sound—fortunately. | | | On completion of Symphony No. 5, the screen shows Symphony No. 6 (with a different color line drawing of conductor Caetani), and the music is then heard. | | | His recordings include Donizetti's Poliuto (with Ricciarelli, Pons and Carreras) for Sony, several opera albums with Carreras and Caballé, and Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with "The Robert Schumann Philharmonic." These performances of two Shostakovich symphonies are long on introspection and short on drive, with undistinguished orchestral playing. |
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| | DSCH 9 Shostakovich CD Reviews - Symphony No. 5; Chamber Symphony |
| | That earlier CD did not inspire enthusiasm for a new outing; Jansons blitzed through the symphony with utter disregard for the buildup or release of tension. | | | In the second movement, for example, Jansons depicts a dialogue between, on the one hand, stern lower and massed strings and brass, and on the other, a free-spirited voice in high winds and violin that sounds reluctant or unable to limit its imagination to the lines it is being ordered to parrot. | | | At this moment, we are used to the timpani roll serving to underpin the crescendo on winds; compare Rostropovich and the National Symphony Orchestra on Teldec (4509-94557-2). |
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| | SA-CD.net - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 - RSNO |
| | The recording per se is very truthfull, no highlighting of instruments, for example, and the ambiance of the hall is captured giving a warmth and naturalness to the string tone. | | | SA-CD.net - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 - RSNO | | | Review by Oscar June 21, 2005 (5 of 5 found this review helpful) |
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| | Amazon.com: Shostakovich: Symphony Nos. 5 & 9: Music |
| | The Ninth Symphony is the composer's lightest and most carefree. | | | This 5th is what brought him into great prominence, here performed by Bernstein and the NY Phil after their return from performing in Russia in front of the composer. | | | This is the best recording of Shostakovich's infamous 5th Symphony I've ever heard. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000K4J7?v=glance
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| | SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 CD - LSO Live CD LSO0058 - London Symphony Orchestra |
| | His friendship with the composer gives him an almost unique understanding of Shostakovich’s inner traumas, and as with the 2002’s outstandingly successful LSO Live recording of the Symphony No 11, he inspires the LSO’s players to the heights of virtuosity. | | | SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 CD - LSO Live CD LSO0058 - London Symphony Orchestra | | | The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2003, London Symphony Orchestra. |
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| | Dimitri SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony No. 5 [GPJ]: Classical CD Reviews- March 2003 MusicWeb(UK) |
| | Not surprisingly, the end of the symphony is dull; no triumph, no tragedy. | | | Andrew Litton is a musician for whom I have a great deal of respect, but he suffers in these performances from that common affliction of conductors — the desire to ‘say something’ about the music rather than let it speak for itself. | | | This mannered approach is evident from near the beginning, where, after the introductory statement, the main theme is presented in a hushed sotto voce by the violins, thus denying the music a chance to settle into a forward momentum of any kind (Sample 1, track 5, opening). |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Mar03/shostakovich_Symph5.htm
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| | DSCH 16 Shostakovich CD Reviews - Symphony No. 5 |
| | This was possibly due to the recording itself, which, while clean enough, is quieter and acoustically drier than comparison studio recordings and consequently lacked pure sonic grandeur at the points of climax (though it compares more than favourably with Dmitriev's live recording with the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra; Linn Records CKD 004). | | | I found that the euphonium-like warmth of the first horn seemed at odds with the music at times, much preferring the more cavernous and menacing brass on Previn's recording with the London Symphony Orchestra (RCA Victor GD 86801, reissued as 74321 24212 2). | | | Given the history of its premiere, the attendant sounds of stifled coughs, breaths drawn in relief or held in anticipation should, especially with Mravinsky conducting, transport the listener not only to Tokyo in 1973 but Leningrad in 1937. |
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| | SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 8 by Unknown at Audio Lunchbox |
| | SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 8 by Unknown at Audio Lunchbox | | | 8: TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 3 / The Tempest - TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. | | | Beethoven Piano Concertos No. 1 through 5 (Disc 2) |
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| | newceedees |
| | Shostakovich: Cello Sonata opus 40 - Hoebig, Tunis - CBC Records MVCD 1093 | | | Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 - Leningrad PO, Tchernushenko, Stadler (violin) - Leningrad Masters LM 1320 | | | Shostakovich: Violin Sonata - O. Kagan (violin), S. Richter (piano) - Olympia OCD 579 |
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| | 100 Greatest Classical Music Works |
| | Serenade No. 13 "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | | | Romance No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra – Ludwig Van Beethoven | | | Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 – Edvard Grieg |
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| | GlassPages Lyrics: Symphony No. 5 (Choral) |
| | Phil Glass's Fifth Symphony is arranged for five sole voices, a children's and a mixed choir, and a large orchestra (triple winds), strings and several other instruments often used by Glass: electric organ piano, celesta, glockenspiel, xylophone and harp. | | | It is therefore no coincidence that Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" employs a catchy dance melody, a contredanse which recalls the songs of the French Revolution. | | | This constitutes the fundamental difference in comparison to symphonies in the 19th and part of the 20th century. |
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| | Shostakovich's tenth symphony |
| | The symphony was first performed in Leningrad on 17 December 1953. | | | Rhythmically exciting, the music never really comes to a rest until the very end of the movement. | | | Stalin died on 5 March 1953, and the resulting thaw in the repressive political climate saw Shostakovich suddenly release a number of new works, including this symphony. |
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| | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor |
| | Western listeners, generally unaware of what was going on behind Stalin's mask, took the work at face value, yet were still overwhelmed by its grandeur and beauty. | | | One does not need to look far beneath the surface of the Fifth to discover just what this ``practical'' reply actually contains. | | | Shostakovich's next misstep came with the Fourth Symphony, which he had been composing in his mind for some time. |
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| | SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 and works by Bernstein & Mahler. PROM 17 |
| | Bernstein's symphonic suite from On the Waterfront found the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra brass struggling and the strings flaccid. | | | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg, PROM 17, RAH, 27 July 2000 (MB) | | | SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 and works by Bernstein and Mahler. |
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| | George Kennaway: Repertoire |
| | Elgar Enigma Variations, Symphony No 1, Suite The Wand of Youth, Cello Concerto, Violin Concerto | | | Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra, Ritual Dances from A Midsummer Marriage, Symphony No 2 | | | Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire, Chamber Symphony No 1 (chamber and full orchestra versions) |
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| | Bavarian Broadcasting Classic |
| | As a contribution to the Karl Amadeus Hartmann commemorative year, the musica viva concert on October 28 will feature a performance of "Symphony No. 5" by the late composer K. Hartmann, who lived in Munich. | | | Also on the program: music by Michael Tippett and Frank Martin. | | | The program also includes two world premieres: "Wachstum" ["Growth"], a concerto grosso for five guitars and orchestra by Fredrik Zeller; and, to conclude the program, Wolfgang von Schweinitz's "Plainsound Sinfonie." |
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| | Program 8 |
| | Of the fifteen symphonies written by the Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Symphony No. 5 is the most performed. | | | Because of the somewhat heroic nature of the music, the Finale is especially well adapted to performance by the concert band. | | | First played in 1937, this work re-established Shostakovich in the good graces of the Soviet government, after much criticism of his previous work, and won him a firm place among the world’s first-rank composers. |
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| | Shostakovich - Symphony No 7, 'Leningrad' - RadioDirectory.com |
| | Shostakovich - Symphony No 7, 'Leningrad' - RadioDirectory.com | | | Type: Audio CD Availability: usually dispatched within 24 hours. | | | No lover of Shostakovich should be without this version. |
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| | Sounds Magnificent (The Story of the Symphony) - Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 / Previn, RPO, free casino gaming |
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| | Philip Glass - Symphony No. 5 |
| | This mammoth two-CD work is more of a symphonic cantata than an actual symphony and is similar in design to Shostakovich’s dark Symphony No. 14. | | | Philip Glass - Symphony No. 5, “Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya” | | | While the Shostakovich is a meditation on death, Glass’ symphony is a 12-movement storytelling of the whole of creation from beginning to end, as written in just about every holy book, poem, or epic fable that the world has known. |
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| | Legendary 3 |
| | Fifth Movement from 'Symphonie fantastique, episode de la vie d'un artiste'_Hector Belrioz / arr.Genba Fujita | | | Fourth Movement from Symphony No.4 _Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky | | | Fifth Movement from 'Symphonie fantastique, episode de la vie d'un artiste' _Hector Belrioz |
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| | February 2004 |
| | The program for both performances was the Festive Overture and Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovich, and Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 3 with acclaimed pianist Hélène Grimaud as soloist. | | | On 3rd February, His Royal Highness attended a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York. |
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| | Orchestral Audition Repertoire |
| | Bruckner, Symphonies No. 4, No. 7, & No. 8 | | | Mozart, Symphony in E-flat, K. 543 (No. 39) | | | Haydn, The Creation, No. 26 Achieved is a Glorious Work |
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| | Recordings - BPO - Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 and Cello Concerto No. 1 |
| | Recordings - BPO - Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 and Cello Concerto No. 1 | | | Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5 and Cello Concerto No. 1 | | | Conductor : Teacher : Speaker : The Art of Possiblity : Biography : Latest News : Recordings : Join The Conversation : Where's Ben? |
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