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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
Genre: Classical
 
Completed in 1936 but withdrawn during rehearsal and not performed until 1961, the searing Fourth Symphony finds Shostakovich stretching his musical idiom to the limit in the search for a personal means of expression at a ...  more »

     
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All Artists: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Title: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
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Total Copies: 0
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 10/29/2013
Genre: Classical
Style: Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 747313318872

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Completed in 1936 but withdrawn during rehearsal and not performed until 1961, the searing Fourth Symphony finds Shostakovich stretching his musical idiom to the limit in the search for a personal means of expression at a time of undoubted personal and professional crisis. The opening movement, a complex and unpredictable take on sonata form that teems with a dazzling profusion of varied motifs, is followed by a short, eerie central movement. The finale opens with a funeral march leading to a climax of seismic physical force that gives way to a bleak and harrowing minor key coda. The Symphony has since become one of the most highly regarded of the composer's large-scale works.

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