Artist.......: Dmitri Shostakovich
Album........: Symphonies 2 and(Mariss Jansons)
Label........: Emi Classics
Genre........: Classical
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Apr-21-2006
str.date.....: 000-00-2006
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. symphony no 2 op 14 'to october' largo 05:20
02. poco meno mosso - allegro molto 05:50
03. chorus 'to october' 07:17
04. symphony no 12 op 112 'the year 1917' i 13:19
revolutionary petrograd
05. ii razliv 12:23
06. iii aurora 04:06
07. iv the dawn of humanity 10:04
Runtime 58:19 min
Size 73,3 MB
Release Notes:
Dmitry Shostakovich belongs to the generation of
composers trained principally after the Communist
Revolution of 1917. He graduated from the St.
Petersburg Conservatory as a pianist and composer,
his First Symphony winning immediate favour. His
subsequent career in Russia varied with the
political climate. The initial success of his opera
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, based on Leskov,
and later revised as Katerina Ismailova, was
followed by official condemnation, emanating
apparently from Stalin himself. The composer's
Fifth Symphony, in 1937, brought partial
rehabilitation, while the war years offered a
propaganda coup in the Leningrad Symphony,
performed in the city under German siege. In 1948
he fell foul of the official musical establishment
with a Ninth Symphony thought to be frivolous, but
enjoyed the relative freedom following the death of
Stalin in 1953. Outwardly and inevitably conforming
to official policy, posthumous information suggests
that Shostakovich remained very critical of
Stalinist dictates, particularly with regard to
music and the arts. He occupies a significant
position in the 20th century as a symphonist and as
a composer of chamber music, writing in a style
that is sometimes spare in texture but always
accessible, couched as it is in an extension of
traditional tonal musical language.