Symphony no. 4 in C, op. 43 / Suite no. 1 for Jazz Orchestra

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Государственный cимфонический оркестр Министерства культуры СССР & Gennadi Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky

Symphony No. 4 in C, Op. 43 and Suite No. 1 for Jazz Orchestra are orchestral works by Dmitri Shostakovich, composed in 1936 and 1934 respectively. The symphony showcases large-scale, intense orchestral writing that reflects the composer's engagement with modernist and late‑romantic techniques during a turbulent phase of his career, while the jazz suite explores lighter, dance‑inflected, jazz‑derived colours and instrumentation, together illustrating the breadth of Shostakovich's experimentation with form and orchestration in the early 1930s.