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SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphonies Vol. 9 - Symphony No. 4 (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Petrenko) [8.573188]

1,032 views · Published 30 October 2013 · 3:06 · Indexed 22 October 2026

Channel: Naxos Music · 2013 · Music

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Completed in 1936 but withdrawn during rehearsal and not performed until 1961, the searing Fourth Symphony finds Shostakovich stretching his musical idiom to the limit in the search for a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.

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko, conductor

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