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Dmitri Shostakovich | Symphony No. 5 (1937)

The Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, by Dmitri Shostakovich is a work for orchestra composed between April and July 1937. Its first performance was on November 21, 1937, in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky.

The premiere was a "triumphal success" that appealed to both the public and official critics, receiving an ovation that lasted well over half an hour.


PERFORMANCE

hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony

Dirigent: David Afkham, 

Alte Oper Frankfurt, 3. Februar 2017


00:00 | Auftritt

00:25 | I. Moderato 

17:25 | II. Allegretto 

23:28 | III. Largo

38:15 | IV. Allegro non troppo




Shostakovich
1906 - 1975