Symphony no. 5, op. 47

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic

Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 is the fifth symphony by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, composed in 1937. The work combines elements of late-Romantic orchestration and Soviet-era tonal rhetoric with stark contrasts between sombre, march-like and lyrical passages, and it occupies a pivotal place in Shostakovich's career as a publicly measured response to political pressure and censorship in the Soviet Union.