Symphony No. 5

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Eliahu Inbal & hr‐Sinfonieorchester

Symphony No. 5 is the fifth symphony by Soviet composer Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich, composed and premiered in 1937. The four-movement orchestral work blends expansive, often lyrical material with terse, march-like rhythms, stark dissonances and dense orchestration, and occupies a pivotal place in Shostakovich's output as a publicly presented response to the political pressures of the late 1930s that steered his return to a broadly symphonic idiom while retaining tension and ambiguity.

Symphony No. 5 by Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович - album cover

First released: 1993

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1.
Symphony no. 5 in D minor, op. 47 (1937): I. Moderato - Allegro non troppo
15:57
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Symphony no. 5 in D minor, op. 47 (1937): II. Allegretto
5:38
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Symphony no. 5 in D minor, op. 47 (1937): III. Largo
14:19
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Symphony no. 5 in D minor, op. 47 (1937): IV. Allegro non troppo
10:49