Vasily Petrenko: Symphony No 4 - CD

Title: Symphony No 4
Artist: Vasily Petrenko
Label: Naxos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 747313318872
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2013-10-29
Number of Discs: 1

Completed in 1936 but withdrawn during rehearsal and not performed until 1961, the searing Fourth Symphony finds Shostakovich stretching his musical idiom to the limit in the search for a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

Tracks:
1.1 Allegretto Poco Moderato - Presto - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
1.2 Moderato Con Moto - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
1.3 Largo - Allegro - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Audio Sample:
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