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The Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, by Dmitri Shostakovich is a work for orchestra composed between April and July 1937. Its first performance was on November 21, 1937, in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky.
19 wrz 2023 · Dmitri Shostakovich composed the Fifth Symphony in 1937. The previous year he had experienced a devastating blow when his music came under heavy attack in the Soviet press, largely at the instigation of USSR Premier Stalin.
Symphony No. 5 Op. 47 (1937) Premiered: Leningrad, 1937. The famous Fifth Symphony is one of Shostakovich’s most performed. It was introduced in a newspaper as ‘A Soviet artist’s response to just criticism’, but these were not the composer’s own words.
There are several first-rate accounts of No.5, the composer’s so-called reply to just criticism, not that it was radically different from No.4, which had had to be withdrawn in the light of Stalin’s displeasure.
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) Symphony No 5 in D Minor, Op 47 (1937) Political and artistic pressures coincided many times in the course of Shostakovich’s career, but never more intensely than in the year 1937, when the Fifth Symphony was composed. Early in 1936 his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and the ballet The Limpid
The conductor Kurt Sanderling (1912-2011) first met Dmitri Shostakovich during WW2. Colleagues first, the men went on to forge a strong personal friendship that affords a unique insight into both the music and character of this most conflicted composer.
11 lis 2020 · The first five ascending notes of the theme seem to have developed from Shostakovich’s song, Vozrozhdenije, Op. 46, No. 1, a setting of these lines by Alexander Pushkin: “And the waverings pass away/From my tormented soul/As a new and brighter day/Brings visions of pure gold.”
