Drawing on work by Jos茅 Bowen, Nicholas Cook, and Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, in this article I examine the performance history of the coda of Dmitry Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony (1937) through statistical analysis of tempo in 152 recordings made between 1938 and 2019. I contextualize the trends...
In the case of Dmitri Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, the social and political background to this piece has been greatly emphasized. Yet could the efforts to relate the composer's compositional style to his troubles with the Soviet regime obscure musical issues? The Fifth Symphony, frequently ...
ShostakovichCello Concerto No.1 TchaikovskySymphony No.5 Andris Pogaconductor Daniel Müller-Schottcello Tchaikovsky and Wagner didn’t really get along, but they both knew that big emotions need really big tunes. This concert is positively bursting with them – whether the pageantry and splendou...
2L 2L63), pianist Joachim Kwetzinsky recounts two exchanges between the composers. The first took place in 1965, when both were vacationing in Armenia. Shostakovich asked Shchedrin the Desert Island Score question: Were Shchedrin
On his first US tour, Oistrakh recorded with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and soon recorded with Dimitri Mitropoulos and the New York Philharmonic, as well as Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony. Oistrakh's recording with Mitropoulos was the first of Shostakovich's magisterial ...
Performance of Fifth Symphony to Cap Shostakovich TributeDmitri Shostakovich lived under tyranny all his life -- firstunder a Russian tsar, then under...Kanny, Mark
A Shostakovich chestnut?The Fifth Symphony returns.Jeremy Eichler
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I found the sonorities of the opening pages of the second movement rather "churchy," but in a good way—the way in which Shostakovich would (almost) quote Russian Orthodox music. Very impressive, and easily recommendable to guitar fans on the prowl for unknown or little-known composers and...