Symphony no. 5 in D minor, op. 47

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Oslo‐Filharmonien & Mariss Jansons

Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 is a symphony by Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich, composed and premiered in 1937. The four-movement work employs broadly tonal harmonies, incisive orchestral colours and tightly worked motifs to juxtapose lyrical slow passages with sudden, march-like and sardonic episodes, and it was written as a public response to official criticism that marked a turning point in Shostakovich's career and in Soviet musical history.