Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5

- Composer: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 -- 9 August 1975) - Orchestra: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra - Conductor: Yevgeny Mravinsky - Year of recording: 1973 (Live in Tokyo, Japan) Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, written in 1937. 00:00 - I. Moderato 14:56 - II. Allegretto (Scherzo) 20:04 - III. Largo 33:09 - IV. Allegro non troppo In 1936, the Soviet government launched an official attack against Dmitri Shostakovich’s music, calling it “vulgar, formalistic, [and] neurotic.“ He became an example to other Soviet composers, who rightfully interpreted these events as a broad campaign against musical modernism. This constituted a crisis, both in Shostakovich’s career and in Soviet music as a whole; composers had no choice but to write simple, optimistic music that spoke directly (especially through folk idioms and patriotic programs) to the people and glorified the state. In light of these circumstances, Shostakovich’