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Shostakovich - Symphony No.5 | Naive AM171

Shostakovich - Symphony No.5

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Label: Naive

Cat No: AM171

Barcode: 0822186001714

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 24th November 2008

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Contents

Artists

Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Jaap van Zweden

Works

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Symphony no.5 in D minor, op.47

Artists

Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Jaap van Zweden

About

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op. 47, between April and July 1937. It was premiered in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky on November 21, 1937. The work was a huge success, and is said to have received an ovation of at least 40 minutes. It is still one of his most popular works. The work was written soon after a highly critical piece was written in the newspaper Pravda which attacked the composer's modernist approach to music. The symphony is subtitled “A Soviet Artists Response to Just Criticism”, but many contemporary commentators believe that the piece is a veiled attack on stalinism.

In 1995, after sixteen years of success as a violin soloist and concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden embarked on his career as a conductor. He has been a guest conductor with orchestras such as the Orchestre National de France, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Saint Petersburg and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. 

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