Shostakovich - Symphony No.4 in C minor, Op.43
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BISSACD1553
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 29th June 2009
Contents
Artists
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Mark WigglesworthWorks
Symphony no.4 in C minor, op.43Artists
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Mark WigglesworthAbout
They now take on this huge work – it calls for an orchestra of 125 musicians and lasts well over an hour.
When Shostakovich began working on Symphony No.4, his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk had been a sensational success and the composer was the musical golden child of the Soviet Union. However, after Stalin himself went to see the opera, the newspaper Pravda described the musician as an enemy of the state. Suddenly Shostakovich's life was turned upside down, but he remained unbowed – much later in life he is reported as having said: ‘Instead of repenting I composed my Fourth Symphony’.
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