BBC Radio 3 - Discovering Music, Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8.
Symphony No. 1, Op. 10. Shostakovich completed his first symphony in December 1925, and it was first performed on May 12, 1926, in Leningrad. The score calls for three flutes and two piccolos, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones and tuba, timpani, triangle, snare drum, cymbals, bass drum, tam-tam, bells, and strings, with an important role for.
Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112, subtitled The Year of 1917, in 1961, dedicating it to the memory of Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, as he did his Symphony No. 2.The symphony was premiered that October by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Yevgeny Mravinsky.This was the last Shostakovich symphony Mravinsky premiered.
Secret Resistance: An Analysis of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10.
With his First Symphony Shostakovich was launched into the world as a key Russian Composer for the 20th Century. His next two symphonies were greatly influenced by the government's control over performance music, Symphonies No. 2, To October, and No. 3, The first of May. Both works were references to socialism. During his early years he also worked on a few ballets and an opera that were.
As a war symphony, it was later even performed for U.S. troops in California, and the critic remarked: “By now it is almost unpatriotic not to like Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony.” (40) His Eighth Symphony was also widely performed in America, and though Shostakovich himself gave no hint of a specific wartime program, it was widely seen as a sequel to the Seventh; some called it.
Browse: Shostakovich - Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 'The year 1905' This page lists all recordings of Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 'The year 1905' by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75). Showing 1 - 10 of 55 results.
In this essay I shall try to show how, in at least one important late work, Shostakovich achieves a sense of unity through the association of interval structures made up of linear melodic patterns on the one hand and of the voice leading provided by accompanimental harmonic figures on the other. The nature of this association can be illustrated with examples from one Shostakovich's most.