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| | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor |
 | | Shostakovich's next misstep came with the Fourth Symphony, which he had been composing in his mind for some time. | | | Despite the risk of associating with an ``enemy of the people,'' the Leningrad Philharmonic agreed to premiere it, but the rehearsals went badly, and it became clear to Shostakovich that a performance of such a forward-looking work would be dangerous to his life. | | | But throughout history, artists have thumbed their noses at authorities who were too dense to see through their parody and satire, and Shostakovich was no different. |
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http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/prognotes/shostakovich/symphony5.html
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| | Classical Notes - Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, Classical Classics, Peter Gutmann |
| | Shostakovich titled it “An Artist's Creative Response to Just Criticism” and announced its program as “the stabilization of a personality of a man with all his experiences.” He proclaimed: “There can be no greater joy for a composer than... | | | This duality, together with the unevenness of his output, led to the notion of a promising artist crushed by the boorish Communist regime, a paradigm which held potent symbolic appeal to the West in the throes of the Cold War. | | | But fittingly, it was Stokowski again, at a youthful 82, who ignited the work to its whitest heat in a spectacular 1964 London Symphony concert (Music and Arts 765). |
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| | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| | More broadly, they argue that the significance of Shostakovich is in his music rather than his life, and that to seek political messages in the music detracts from, rather than enhances, its artistic value. | | | Shostakovich was in many ways an obsessive man: according to his daughter he was "obsessed with cleanliness" (Ardov p. | | | What is uncertain is the extent to which Shostakovich expressed his opposition to the state in his other music. |
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http://www.infothis.com/find/Dmitri_Shostakovich
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| | Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4 |
| | The symphony was definitely a response to something, but not in the sense of a chastised schoolboy mending his ways — rather as a great artist reacting to the cruelty and insanity of the times. | | | Shostakovich wrote the Fifth Symphony in what was certainly the most difficult year of his life. | | | He came into contact with some of the foremost musicians in Europe; no wonder that he advanced in his art by leaps and bounds. |
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http://www.clevelandorch.com/images/FTPImages/Performance/program_notes/030603.html
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| | Shostakovich's fifth symphony |
| | Given this hostile climate, it is not surprising that Shostakovich should put such a contrite face on his work. | | | , Shostakovich claims that this work (like many others) is in reality a criticism of the Communist system. | | | In any case, it is a clear response to the stinging attack made on Shostakovich (and in particular on his opera |
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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/music/shostakovich/fifth-symphony.html
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| | Oregon Symphony: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 |
| | He had no interest in merely writing a musical vehicle for Viganò and his wife to parade their talents. | | | I think he was close to tears." Fortunately for Shostakovich, his reputation was restored, and he was allowed to continue living and working as the Soviet Union's foremost composer of the 20th century. | | | This fact is all the more noteworthy given that Adams' style has ranged widely from his early interest in Minimalism through his borrowings of American pop music styles and sounds. |
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http://www.orsymphony.org/concerts/0405/programnotes/classical6.html
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| | DVD-Audio Review: Beethoven Orchestra Bonn (Kofman) - ‘Shostakovich: Symphony No.5, Symphony No.9’ |
| | His next major work to be issued was the ‘Symphony No. 5’, which was published along with the obnoxious tag, “A Soviet artist’s reply to justified criticism,” although it seems this groveling bit was suggested by a reporter or the publisher and did not originate with the composer. | | | This song was written immediately before the composer began working on the ‘Fifth’, during the time when he spent his nights sleeping fully dressed in a chair by the front door, with a packed suitcase at his feet, so that it wouldn’t wake up his children if the secret police came to take him away. | | | His Shostakovich ‘Fifth’ — like his other recordings of this composer — is a daring affair that risks some very epic pacing and grandiose gestures. |
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http://www.highfidelityreview.com/reviews/review.asp?reviewnumber=19676424
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| | MobileGamer.biz :: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 |
| | The first movement is one of the most difficult of Shostakovich's symphonic movements to bring off, musically; and the quasi-"Boléro" march interruption is the reason. | | | This movement in particular makes this symphony stand out in contrast to almost any other of Shostakovich's symphonic works, most of which have a scherzo, an entire movement in which Shostakovich uses his gift for affective rhythmic exaggeration. | | | An enormous amount of the movement is taken up with a long series of repetitions of a single phrase with the orchestration building up over a long crescendo in a manner recalling Ravel's Bolero, a resemblance that cannot conceivably be accidental. |
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| | SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 and works by Bernstein & Mahler. PROM 17 |
| | SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 and works by Bernstein and Mahler. | | | It did not lack excitement, but neither did it strike me as the vortex it should be. | | | Earlier, we had heard Dmitri Hvorostovsky in Mahler's Kindertotenlieder. |
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| | Amazon.com: Shostakovich: Symphony Nos. 5 & 9: Music |
| | Bernstein's Shostakovich 5 is passionate, tragic, and it simply /works/ like no other one out there. | | | Leonard Bernstein's performances of Shostakovich were almost as highly regarded as his Mahler. | | | This makes the scherzo a riot of drunken excess, sort of like Fyodor Karamazov set to music, but also imparts a real sense of impending danger to the music. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000K4J7?v=glance
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| | Program Notes |
| | Mahler's wife, Alma, was ill and could not accompany him to Cologne for the premiere, and to that unhappy circumstance we owe one of the composer’s most remarkable and delightful letters, written just after the first rehearsal. | | | Now trumpets and trombones intone a chorale, the symphony’s first extended music in a major key. | | | Still more variants of the great threnody appear, and the grieving commentary that accompanied the melody in the first movement moves more insistently into the foreground, to the point even of transforming itself for a moment into a march of unseemly jauntiness. |
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http://www.sfsymphony.org/templates/pgmnote.asp?nodeid=3122&callid=3143
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| | Shostakovich |
| | Overnight, and for reasons he could not fathom, Shostakovich had to reconcile himself to reading posters proclaiming: 'Tonight, a programme of music by Enemy of the People Dmitri Shostakovich'. | | | MARISS JANSONS, an exclusive EMI artist, has already proved himself a worthy champion of such masters as Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Svendsen and Tchaikovsky. | | | He called it 'A Soviet artist's reply to just criticism'. |
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| | GlassPages Lyrics: Symphony No. 5 (Choral) |
| | The symphony was commissioned and conceived as a millennium celebration work for the Salzburg Festival. | | | The difference was the repetition of short elements ("patterns") in rigid sequences with little or no change, thereby producing a type of music intended to be "audible art" with no "extra-musical" messages. | | | Even his Symphony No. 5 (Choral), which was conceived as a "Peace Symphony," demonstrates the central role played by repetitions of patterns after only a few bars. |
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| | Symphony No. 5 |
| | In any event, he did complete the Second Symphony, and this time he conducted the premiere himself; it was a great success, and ten months after the premiere the work brought him another Glinka Prize. | | | Because Rachmaninoff felt the work's length would inhibit conductors from programming it, heâ”together with the conductor Nikolai Sokoloff, who made the first recording of the work, with the Cleveland Orchestraâ”made a number of cuts which brought the total timing down by almost a third. | | | Perhaps the failure of his First Symphony, conducted by Alexander Glazunov, still rankled, after ten years, after his success in all his subsequent endeavors, after his having received the Glinka Prize for the Second Concerto in 1904. |
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http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2845
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| | Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 |
| | The Danish composer Carl Nielsen, though little-known to the general public, was arguably one of the most important forces in the development of the modern symphony. | | | The second movement builds further from this result, with the music eventually reaching astounding proportions and finding its way into the light to express Nielsen's innate optimism and love for the human race. | | | This was a rather odd position, given both his own success in the Fourth and the fact that the final movement of the Fifth itself contains a rousing conclusion. |
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http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/prognotes/nielsen/symphony5.html
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| | Charleston Area Convention & Visitor Bureau - Charleston, SC |
| | Orchestrated by Maurice Ravel from Mussorgsky’s piano setting, the work is a thrilling evocation of a stroll through a magnificent gallery. | | | Modeste Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is a work of mystery and grandeur, with contrasting sections painting vivid pictures in the listener’s mind. | | | PROGRAM:Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovich |
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| | Shostakovich: Cello Sonata opus 40 - Bauer, Kupiec - Koch Schwann Musica Mundi 314 362 | | | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 - Tenerife SO, V. Pablo Perez - Arte Nova Classics 74321 27806 2 | | | Shostakovich: The Gamblers - Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Chistiakov, Kurpe, Reshetniak - CDM Siason Russe 288 115 |
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| | SA-CD.net - Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9 - Gergiev |
| | I myself do not like his style, but there is no question that he usually tries to make the music exciting. | | | It's a rather dull, fairly bland performance, especially when it comes to Gergiev's usual energetic style. | | | This disc could be standard to which the performance of all future performances of the 5th and 9th will be held. |
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http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/2103
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Music: Shostakovich: Symphony No.11 |
| | In subsequent years, I added performances by Bernard Haitink, Rudolf Barshai, and Rostropovich himself, when he had been the conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra. | | | Styles > Classical > Classical Instrumental > Composers > Q-T > Shostakovich | | | Some Shostakovich symphonies (certainly the 1st, 5th, 8th and 10th, and perhaps the 6th and 9th) are heard in the concert hall much more frequently than this work, or for that matter, his other "war" symphony, the 7th ("Leningrad") Symphony. |
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| | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5/Piano Concerto No. 2 (DE 3246) |
| | This may be in part because Shostakovich composed this work for his 19-year-old son Maxim, to be performed and conducted by him to secure admission to the Moscow Conservatory. | | | The Second Piano Concerto showcases a lighter side of Shostakovich: the orchestra is chamber-sized, and the music exhibits a youthful spirit and irrepressible energy. | | | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5/Piano Concerto No. 2 (DE 3246) |
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| | DSCH 16 Shostakovich CD Reviews - Symphony No. 5 |
| | Perhaps the movement's tragic overtones have led many conductors to wring every last tear out of the audience by playing it as slowly as possible. | | | By the composer's metronome markings, the movement should come in at around 14:20. | | | This initially struck me as an odd interpretative decision given that Shostakovich is clearly evoking Mahler's Wunderhorn scherzi, including a near quotation of the accompaniment figure from the Fischpredigt movement of his Second Symphony; a carefully planted cipher suggesting that this movement too is about the meaningless "turmoil of appearances". |
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| | Legendary 3 |
| | Fifth Movement from 'Symphonie fantastique, episode de la vie d'un artiste' _Hector Belrioz | | | First Movement from Symphony No.1 'The Lord of the Rings' (De Meij) | | | Fifth Movement from 'Symphonie fantastique, episode de la vie d'un artiste'_Hector Belrioz / arr.Genba Fujita |
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| | 100 Greatest Classical Music Works |
| | Symphony No. 9 "The Great" – Franz Schubert | | | The Ring of the Nibelungs – Richard Wagner | | | Symphony No. 104 "London" – Franz Joseph Haydn |
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| | Guardian Shostakovich: Symphony no 5; Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 8 , LSO/ BBCSO/ Stokowski |
| | These two live performances, recorded in the Royal Albert Hall in the 1964 Prom season, vividly demonstrate that even in his 80s Leopold Stokowski had few rivals in inspiring performances of the highest voltage. | | | This is generally counted as one of the composer's more relaxed symphonies - it was written when he was 83 - yet Stokowski finds a power and bite in the writing that recall the dramatic thrust of the chilling Sixth Symphony. | | | The Shostakovich Fifth Symphony was his favourite, and here the biting tensions of the opening are masterfully contrasted with the pure, sinuous lines of the second subject in a performance of exceptional refinement and dedication. |
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| | Rideau Music - Symphony No. 5 Op. 47 |
| | New Collected Works Arranged For 2 Pianos/4 Hands Dsch Of Moscow, Founded By Shostakovich's Widow, Is Committed To Publishing The Works Of The Great 20Th-Century Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. | | | This Hardbound Series Presents Beautiful Editions, With Articles In Russian And English And Facsimile Color Photography Of The Composer's Manuscript, Along With The Newly Engraved Edition Of The Score. |
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http://www.rideaumusic.com/product-235585
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| | Program 8 |
| | First played in 1937, this work re-established Shostakovich in the good graces of the Soviet government, after much criticism of his previous work, and won him a firm place among the world’s first-rank composers. | | | Because of the somewhat heroic nature of the music, the Finale is especially well adapted to performance by the concert band. | | | Of the fifteen symphonies written by the Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Symphony No. 5 is the most performed. |
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| | Dimitri SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony No. 5 [GPJ]: Classical CD Reviews- March 2003 MusicWeb(UK) |
| | This may be a politically correct way of reading the work, but as a musical experience it doesn’t begin to register. | | | Andrew Litton is a musician for whom I have a great deal of respect, but he suffers in these performances from that common affliction of conductors — the desire to ‘say something’ about the music rather than let it speak for itself. | | | This mannered approach is evident from near the beginning, where, after the introductory statement, the main theme is presented in a hushed sotto voce by the violins, thus denying the music a chance to settle into a forward momentum of any kind (Sample 1, track 5, opening). |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Mar03/shostakovich_Symph5.htm
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| | Recordings - BPO - Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 and Cello Concerto No. 1 |
| | Conductor : Teacher : Speaker : The Art of Possiblity : Biography : Latest News : Recordings : Join The Conversation : Where's Ben? | | | Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5 and Cello Concerto No. 1 | | | Recordings - BPO - Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 and Cello Concerto No. 1 |
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| | Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! |
| | This item will be shipped to you via USPS Trackable Media Mail; delivery will take from 2 days to 3 weeks. | | | Performed by The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andre Previn. | | | Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich) - (excerpt 4th movement) |
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| | Rico Saccani - Shostakovich - Symphony No 5, Racmaninov - Piano Concerto No 1 |
| | Shostakovich and Rachmaninov, two of the greatest 20th Century Russian composers, were profoundly affected by the Revolution and their music was led in very different directions as a result. | | | This link will be available for 24 hours. | | | Rico Saccani - Shostakovich - Symphony No 5, Racmaninov - Piano Concerto No 1 |
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| | Shostakovich's tenth symphony |
| | Stalin died on 5 March 1953, and the resulting thaw in the repressive political climate saw Shostakovich suddenly release a number of new works, including this symphony. | | | Rhythmically exciting, the music never really comes to a rest until the very end of the movement. | | | The symphony was first performed in Leningrad on 17 December 1953. |
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| | Sheet Music Plus - Symphony No. 5, Op. 47 |
| | These volumes are the first releases of an ambitious new series started in 1999 by DSCH, the exclusive publisher of the works of Dmitri Shostakovich. | | | Sheet Music Plus - Symphony No. 5, Op. | | | Each volume contains new engravings; articles regarding the history of the compositions; facsimile pages of Shostakovich's manuscripts, outlines, and rough drafts; as well as interpretations of the mauscripts. |
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| | DVD AUDIO Shostakovich Sym 5/6 & Brummer |
| | As the music is playing we see on-screen a color line drawing of the conductor. | | | On completion of Symphony No. 5, the screen shows Symphony No. 6 (with a different color line drawing of conductor Caetani), and the music is then heard. | | | Riccardo Chailly is now the Music Director and has made several recordings with the orchestra, most recently a Verdi collection (see REVIEW). |
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| | Amazon.ca: Music: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 8 [Import] |
| | Amazon.ca: Music: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 8 [Import] | | | Styles > Classical > Featured Composers, A-Z > (S) > Shostakovich, Dmitri | | | Dmitry Shostakovich (Composer), Ralph Vaughan Williams (Composer), Leopold Stokowski (Conductor), BBC Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra) |
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| | HERMITAGE MUSEUM ONLINE SHOP: Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 and Quartet No 8 |
| | This product is eligible for a Friends of the Hermitage discount. | | | Quartet No 8 was written in commemoration of World War II and the victims of fascism. | | | Music by Shostakovich is recognized all over the world as classics of the 20th century. |
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| | DSCH 9 Shostakovich CD Reviews - Symphony No. 5; Chamber Symphony |
| | Matters were only made worse by the mediocrity of the playing and tinny acoustics. | | | This disc comes a decade after Mariss Jansons last recorded the Fifth, then too for EMI, with the Oslo Philharmonic (CDC 7 49181 2). | | | Jansons displays a powerful overall conception, which successfully translates into music the prevailing scholarship on the symphony's subtext. |
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| | SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 CD - LSO Live CD LSO0058 - London Symphony Orchestra |
| | ‘In this towering performance by the LSO under the composer’s friend and colleague Mstislav Rostropovich
Shostakovich comes across as a thoroughgoing modernist, agonised about the issues of the day, but pouring his angst into a huge, multifaceted work which flows with the heat of volcanic lava. | | | His friendship with the composer gives him an almost unique understanding of Shostakovich’s inner traumas, and as with the 2002’s outstandingly successful LSO Live recording of the Symphony No 11, he inspires the LSO’s players to the heights of virtuosity. | | | Few works stir up as much debate over their ‘meaning’ as Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. |
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| | SA-CD.net - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 - RSNO |
| | The recording per se is very truthfull, no highlighting of instruments, for example, and the ambiance of the hall is captured giving a warmth and naturalness to the string tone. | | | Shostakovich symphonies lend themselves to the SACD medium. | | | But here, the RSNO sounds in top notch form, the conducting is very good and persuasive, in a work that easily can slide into the banal and repetitive. |
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| | JasonOnline [My Favourite...] |
| | - symphony no. 3 "organ", piano concerto nos. | | | - helios overture, saga-dream, rhapsody overture : an imaginary journey to the faroe islands, symphonies 1-6, alaadin suite | | | - valse triste, andante festivo, lemminkainen suite, finlandia, all sibelius' symphonies, kalelia suite, nightride and sunrise, swanwhite suite, etc. |
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| | Shostakovich - Symphony No 7, 'Leningrad' - RadioDirectory.com |
| | Written as part of the War Trilogy (8th and 9th Symphonies being the others) it symbolises the struggle for survival in a besieged Leningrad. | | | I am glad this version is still available after all these years for it is a gem! | | | The recording is brilliant too, but make sure you don't upset the neighbours for it can get very loud particularly during the famous March, and the closing bars in the final movement. |
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| | February 2004 |
| | The program for both performances was the Festive Overture and Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovich, and Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 3 with acclaimed pianist Hélène Grimaud as soloist. | | | On 3rd February, His Royal Highness attended a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York. |
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| | Philip Glass - Symphony No. 5 |
| | This mammoth two-CD work is more of a symphonic cantata than an actual symphony and is similar in design to Shostakovich’s dark Symphony No. 14. | | | While the Shostakovich is a meditation on death, Glass’ symphony is a 12-movement storytelling of the whole of creation from beginning to end, as written in just about every holy book, poem, or epic fable that the world has known. | | | Philip Glass - Symphony No. 5, “Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya” |
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http://www.schirmer.com/composers/glass_sym_5.html
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| | Printed from pe.com |
| | With a disciplined and mindful approach, Flynn guided the orchestra through Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, what Flynn called "an iconic piece"; he explained that the work is unusually difficult because the musicians must be expressive on cue, much like a soloist is trained. | | | The program gave the audience tremendous listening range, from the totally accessible and romantic Piano Concerto No. 2 by Rachmaninov to the powerfully descriptive and intellectually provocative Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovich. | | | The orchestra, under Patrick Flynn's sophisticated direction, played with persistent expressiveness, creating a blend with the soloist that would make a good margarita stand aside. |
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