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It is perhaps only the thoughts and feelings themselves that are not yet fully focused. Even today, people wonder just what Shostakovich was trying to say. 1, and the Symphony … In the Sixth Symphony, Shostakovich wanted to express an illogical and contradictory world and so chose a form that is both those things. And completing his Symphony No 4 – a big brute of a work – he withdrew the planned Leningrad premiere in '36, after denunciation by the State. Program Notes: Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 2. 14, ‘To October’, View fugueforthought’s profile on Facebook, View fugueforthought’s profile on Twitter, Lisa Casal-Galietta: A (Red) Door to Classical Music, Follow Fugue for Thought on WordPress.com, Beethoven Piano Sonata no. After a deceptively light opening, the music hurls itself helter-skelter into a series of episodes that seem to collide up against each other with little meaning or purpose, sometimes breathlessly agitated, other times disconcertingly empty. Symphony No. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. 2 in 1967 for David Oistrakh, to whom the score is dedicated.It was meant to be a gift for the violinist’s sixtieth birthday, September 30, 1968; … It’s marked largo, and the first real utterance of any kind, out of this jumble of sound, comes from the brass, in the form of more low growls, and eventually a trumpet solo. This was considered Klangflächenmusik (cluster composition) before the term was officially coined. 11 in G minor, Op. Symphony No. Shostakovich’s Fifteenth Symphony, like his Fifteenth String Quartet, was his last, and both works seem to illuminate the composer’s state of mind in his last years. His well-educated mother had to work thirteen-hour days as a cashier and Shostakovich was forced to spend many after-school hours as a silent-movie pianist to help the family cope with the hardships of the post-Revolutionary economy. But…I dunno…there’s something about no.2 that keeps me coming back for more, beginning with the intro, whose very teeming nebulousness marks it out as among the most boldly avant garde music he ever wrote. 14 and subtitled To October, for the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution.It was first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and the Academy Capella Choir under Nikolai Malko, on 5 November 1927.After the premiere, Shostakovich made some revisions to the score, and this final version was first played in Moscow … To cry out in terror. 2 in B, op. 14 no. Possibly because of this, the authorities insisted on the commission concluding with a text by the Komsomol poet Aleksander Bezymensk, straightforward propaganda describing the hopeless conditions faced by workers before the Revolution and the heroism of Lenin in solving all their problems. In many people’s minds it represented more an ideal of what the Revolution stood for, rather than the reality of regimented Bolshevik doctrine. It is a radically different work than his first symphony, which is a marvelously successful work that to me gives us far better glimpses into who the composer would later mature into than either of these works we’ll discuss. Voting game from the old Amazon forum: Shostakovich symphonies: 1 - Symphony #10 in E minor, Op. The second movement then feels very much like a scherzo. Beethoven was upheld as the artist most completely in tune with the social aspirations of his time and it was felt by many post-Revolutionary Russians that his death marked the start of the decline of the symphony as an art form altogether – one that could never be resurrected under the rampant capitalism of the west. Stalin had asked for light and boisterous finales. Nervous tension and sarcastic wit, passion and intelligence, contemplation and action, nobility and banality – all expressed with an economy of means that is simultaneously subtle and direct. But the style was about to change. 112, subtitled The Year of 1917, in 1961, dedicating it to the memory of Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, as he did his Symphony No. Did the masterpieces that followed need the conflict, tension, and suffering of his time before they could flower from the composer’s pen? Shostakovich himself called the première his ‘second birth’.   It has been likened to the opening chapter of a novel, setting the tone for all that follows. ( Log Out /  But if they seem crude or illogical, that reflects the brutality and ideologically confused spirit of the age. Even removing the choral finale, which sounds wholly uninspired, we’re still left with a piece that lacks much motivation. From sheer misery, I’ve started to compose the finale of the symphony. But unlike its predecessor, this was not a commissioned piece and, as such, it raises interesting questions about the composer’s freely made decision to celebrate the international labour movement’s May Day celebrations. Walter, Toscanini, and Klemperer all performed it. His friend and dedicatee of the First Symphony, Mikhail Kvadri, had recently been arrested and shot for ‘counterrevolutionary activity’; the dedication was officially removed from the score. Shostakovich was to use this form with great power in a number of other situations, including the Trio No.   Wiki mentions “the notion of “industrial” symphonies intended to inspire the proletariat.” Thank goodness that phase is over. 14 ‘To October’ Symphony No. It is daylight, and false. 103 'The year 1905' WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln, Semyon Bychkov The performance from the WDR Symphony Orchestra is compelling at both ends of the dynamic spectrum, from the heart-rending funereal … October, the Commune and Lenin. It is not obvious whether this embarrassment was musical or political, but in Shostakovich’s case, the two were normally connected. And the Mahlerian string sonorities and Tchaikovsky-like descriptions of fate and death are more old-fashioned influences than contemporary ones. © Mark Wigglesworth 2012. (This was not performed until 1961, during the Kruschev era.) The piece was written as a birthday present for Shostakovich’s nineteen-year-old son Maxim – himself an accomplished pianist. 2 in C-sharp minor for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 129. This is followed by the most forced of perorations maybe ever written in music history. He was back in the party’s good graces—for the time being. 1 and 2 Christopher Lyndon-Gee, Michael Houstoun & New Zealand Symphony … But perhaps it was not only that work’s orchestration, with its soloistic piano part, that fascinated the student composer. The classicism is most apparent in the first movement, which follows 18th-century sonata form right down to repeating the exposition (the only Shostakovich Symphony that does). The composer’s next major work was his Symphony No. Shostakovich said at the time that he ‘always wanted to create music that reflects our era, and the thoughts and the feelings of the Soviet person’, but it is unclear whether he intended this symphony’s opening thematic chaos and abstractly expressionistic textures to represent the hardship of before the Revolution or the emotional blandness that followed. There’s a brassy moment of triumph in this movement, one that would put a pretty nice cap on this work if it were just an overture-like tone poem along the lines of Stravinsky’s Feu d’artifice, but the thing has to continue, doesn’t it? Written in 1929, in less than a month, the Third Symphony is another single-movement work with choral finale. ( Log Out /  47 (1937) The Soviet Union had discovered its first international star, the first to be trained solely under the new system rather than old imperialist Russia, and the authorities proclaimed him as an exaltation of the new at the expense of the old. 9 thoughts on “ Seeking Shostakovich: Listening to the Tenth Symphony (Part 2 of 2) ” T. March 31, 2014 at 3:19 AM It is so refreshing and lovely to read about you wanting joy for Shostakovich, because of your experience with his music. Who knows, if he’d been allowed to carry on composing in the same vein, we might have ended up with something like ’50s/’60s Ligeti – but 30 years sooner! 2 in G Major, Op. He came to grow tired of, if not entirely resent, composing the work, and thought very little of the text, but it was eventually completed. 1, Beethoven Piano Sonata no. Peaceful development is a most intense struggle.’ It’s chamber-like for a long stretch, but the chaos increases as the rest of the ensemble joins. This is the Shostakovich Symphony 5 violin excerpt from mvt 1, Rehearsal number 32 until 36. Wikipedia explains it thusly, citing Ian MacDonald’s The New Shostakovich: Shostakovich composed his Second in a gestural, geometric “music without emotional structure” manner, with the intent of reflecting speech patterns and physical movements in a neo-realistic style. In 1927 Shostakovich was commissioned by the State Publishing House to honour the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. performed by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Neeme Järvi, or as below with the WDR Radio Chorus and WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne under Rudolf Barshai. In fact, I’d already made that note before I’d gone back to read the end of the Wikipedia article, which cites the quote that opens this article. Still, for me it stands as a fascinating glimpse of the composer who might have been but for the Lady Macbeth debacle, etc. After composing the first two movements, Shostakovich wrote to a friend that it would be more fitting to call the work a ‘symphony-grotesque’. COMPOSED: Shostakovich composed his Violin Concerto No. Instead, the final lines are chanted rather than sung: This is the slogan and this is the name of living generations: 2 in B major, Op. Maybe it was this combination of views that allowed him to write music that spoke to so many, and offended so few. I have multiple times now put on this work while I’m doing other things, and promptly forgot anything was playing and suddenly started hearing strings. 44: I. Allegro brillante. It’s a reminder that this work was commissioned, or as the case may be, demanded, from the composer by Shuglin, and the interesting circumstances he was in, wanting to compose something new, and being saddled with this patriotic idea. And here he is: we are this week and next discussing the second and third symphonies of Prokofiev and… Shostakovich. And yet, despite suffering from malnutrition and tuberculosis, there are also stories of him losing his job for laughing too much at the Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin films he was employed to accompany. etc. Explain that Shostakovich put secret messages and codes into his music as a clever way of avoiding Stalins rules. Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No. The première, on 12th May 1926, was an enormous success, and it was not long before the work gained worldwide recognition. Cellist/conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, who knew Shostakovich well, took a more universal approach when he said the Eleventh is “a symphony written in blood, a truly tragic work. 2013 Preview SONG TIME Piano Concerto No. 2 Seattle Symphony Judith Fong Conductor Emeritus Ludovic Morlot conducts the Seattle Symphony in music by Caroline Shaw, Shostakovich and Beethoven featuring cellist Alisa Weilerstein on Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 7:30pm on Seattle Symphony Live . And when the lively, actually musical second movement begins, it makes this long first section of the work seem like a moody warm-up. The directors of the conservatory were excited by the genius they felt they had nurtured and arranged for the symphony to be performed by Nikolai Malko and the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra. The work was composed for the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. These early, enigmatic works point to a lifetime of ambiguity and double-speak. It was after all, perfectly possible to be in favour of the Revolution yet appalled by the practices of the party that engineered it. 12 in D minor, Op. The third movement continues the acceleration of the work, but is now transparent and light, with a violin solo, accompanied by one woodwind after another joining the party. Shostakovich had given them their forced happy ending, a secret testament to the horrors of life under Stalin. But for Shostakovich, it need not have been a question of one or the other. 2 (Shostakovich) Last updated February 10, 2020. The Fifth Symphony, finished by Shostakovich in 1937, is probably the most frequently performed of his symphonies, and it’s easy to understand why. 2, the Second, Third, Sixth, and Tenth string quartets, the Violin Concerto No. Whatever the answers to those questions are, it is hard to misunderstand the composer’s feelings at the end of the piece. The word “seem” is appropriate since, of all composers in the 20th century, of none is it truer to say that the more we know the less we know. Like Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, another piece he admired, the disconcerting idea of human beings as puppets, with their actions manipulated by unseen string-pullers from on high, was one that stayed with the composer right the way through to his final symphony, written almost fifty years later. It could be that his choice of key was even intended as a public show of respect for Beethoven, who used the same heroic tonality for his own Third Symphony. 13, ‘Pathetique’, Mozart Violin Concerto no. Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op. Dmitri Shostakovich, Mstislav Rostropovich, London Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 (1935–36) were withdrawn. It would also be impossible for Muzsektor to turn it down, and was guaranteed at least some friendly press. Wikipedia tells us that it is “meditative” and that Shostakovich described it as “the “death of a child” (letter to Boleslav Yavorsky) killed on the Nevsky Prospekt.”. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Shostakovich: Symphony No. Bolshevik (1920), by Boris Kustodiev.. Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. ( Log Out /  It’s about 20-ish seconds, depending on ambient noise, before you hear the low mumbles of the ensemble in this first and longest movement. Shostakovich may well have been a supporter of the philosophies that led to the October Revolution in the first place, but his inability to write any musical notes at all for the final lines, instead simply asking for the words to be declaimed without pitch, seems an indication of how he perceived the soulless climate of the time. 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