Symphony no. 9, op. 70 / Symphony no. 5, op. 47

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Concerto Budapest & András Keller

Symphony No. 9, Op. 70 / Symphony No. 5, Op. 47 is a two-symphony album of orchestral works by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, comprising compositions from 1945 and 1937 respectively. The pairing contrasts the Ninth's concise, neoclassical textures and transparent orchestration with the Fifth's large-scale, dramatic sonata-based structure written in the context of political scrutiny, and together they indicate shifts in Shostakovich's symphonic language and his responses to the historical circumstances of the 1930s and 1940s.