Shostakovich - Symphony No.5, Poems of Alexander Blok | Ondine ODE11095

Shostakovich - Symphony No.5, Poems of Alexander Blok

Label: Ondine

Cat No: ODE11095

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 31st March 2008

Contents

Artists

Yvonne Naef (mezzo-soprano)
Juliette Kang (violin)
Hai-Ye Ni (cello)
Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Philadelphia Orchestra

Conductor

Christoph Eschenbach

Works

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Romances (7) on Poems of Alexander Blok, op.127
Symphony no.5 in D minor, op.47

Artists

Yvonne Naef (mezzo-soprano)
Juliette Kang (violin)
Hai-Ye Ni (cello)
Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Philadelphia Orchestra

Conductor

Christoph Eschenbach

About

The latest in Ondine's successful series with The Philadelphia Orchestra and its Music Director Christoph Eschenbach features Shostakovich's popular Fifth Symphony. Officially viewed as "the practical creative reply of a Soviet artist to just criticism," this symphony was the Russian composer's mid-career coup. After his music had been politically attacked, he got back into the good graces of both communist officials and the public, who stood and cheered its première in 1937.

As a special bonus, this disc also contains the haunting song cycle Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok. Christoph Eschenbach performs on piano together with acclaimed mezzo-soprano Yvonne Naef and members of the orchestra.

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