Symphony no. 4

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Symfonický orchester Slovenského rozhlasu & Ladislav Slovák

Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43, is the fourth symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich, completed in 1936 and withdrawn from performance until its first public premiere in 1961. The work is a large-scale modernist orchestral composition that juxtaposes dense, often dissonant orchestration, complex textures and turbulent contrasts, and occupies a transitional place in Shostakovich's career between earlier experimental modernism and the more restrained public style he adopted under Soviet pressure.