Beethoven & Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 6 Dresdner Philharmonie & Michael Sanderling
Album info
Album-Release:
2015
HRA-Release:
13.11.2015
Label: Sony Classical
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Artist: Dresdner Philharmonie & Michael Sanderling
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
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- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 54
- 1I. Largo17:41
- 2II. Allegro06:11
- 3III. Presto07:34
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68
- 4I. Allegro ma non troppo11:43
- 5II. Andante molto moto11:51
- 6III. Allegro05:24
- 7IV. Allegro03:46
- 8V. Allegretto08:33
Info for Beethoven & Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 6
The present album marks the beginning of a journey that sets up a conversation between two composers: Beethoven and Shostakovich. he conversation begins tentatively and in both cases with a kind of subterfuge, for neither work is typical of its genre. he Pastoral rep- resents an alternative to the Fifth, the so-called “Symphony of Fate”, on which Beethoven was working at the same time. And Shostakovich’s Sixth? His Fifth had been tremendously successful, appearing to represent his response to “justified criticism” and in that way ushering in his rehabilitation. But those who were able to decipher the music’s true meaning wept uncontrollably at its first performance.
In a country where “the Sixth” inevitably meant Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique”, Shostakovich’s Sixth Symphony was expected to be a work that would be “pathétique” in the best sense of the term. he composer had earlier announced that he was planning to write a “great vocal symphony to Lenin”, but the critics waited in vain for such a work. Shostakovich had lived through Stalin’s show trials and seen the persecution and tyranny under which countless Russians had received lengthy prison sentences or else been exiled or murdered. Not even his own immediate circle was spared Stalin’s reign of terror. Against this background can we blame Shostakovich for claiming as a way of protecting himself that he was writing a work in honor of Lenin? What is astonishing, conversely, is that in 1939 he risked publishing this anti-symphony, making all of his own assurances regard- ing the work seem like sheer mockery.
Dresdner Philharmonie
Michael Sanderling, conductor
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