Symphony no. 4

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & National Symphony Orchestra & Mstislav Rostropovich

Symphony No. 4 is the fourth symphony by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, composed in 1936 and first performed in 1961. The work is expansive and orchestral, drawing on late-Romantic and modernist elements with dense textures, sharp contrasts and large-scale orchestration, and it occupies a pivotal place in Shostakovich's output as a major, politically interrupted experiment of the 1930s Soviet musical landscape.