Symphonies no. 6 / no. 7 "Leningrad" / Song of the Forests / Festive Overture

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Yuri Temirkanov & Заслуженный коллектив России Академический симфонический оркестр Санкт-Петербургской филармонии

This compilation album of orchestral works by Dmitri Shostakovich collects compositions written between 1939 and 1954. The music traverses Shostakovich's wartime and postwar idioms, moving from expansive, dramatic and march-infused large-scale orchestral writing to more ceremonial and choral-inflected textures, and it illustrates shifts in his compositional approach in response to the political and cultural pressures of the Soviet era.

First released: 24th July 2002

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