The march in the first movement is more of a parody of marching than one that draws the feet to tap the beat.

We performed two Shostakovich symphonies under his baton, Sam 15 in January 1988 and Sym 10 in November 1990.

By feigning ignorance, he was giving himself vital space to  continue to create and experiment, but had Stalin sensed his reticence to comply fully, the price would surely have meant death for Shostakovich and his family.

[6] He explained to a friend, "The audience, of course, will applaud—it's considered bon ton to be in the opposition, and then there'll be another article with a headline like 'Incorrigible Formalist. Crotchet 76 in the 2nd mvt is lento.

I had the record when I was a kid and listened to it constantly, and for better or worse it became my frame of reference for the piece. Hard to imagine liking a modern performance that doesn’t try to do justice to what I think is a pretty interesting concept on the part of a pretty damn good composer…. [11] Shostakovich slimmed down his musical style considerably from the superabundance of the Fourth, with less orchestral color and a smaller breadth of scope.

Here’s the short version. It shows him breaking radical new ground as a post-Mahlerian symphonist, and so it is no surprise that friends and colleagues implored Shostakovich to withdraw the work before its scheduled premiere after Stalin’s rejection of Lady MacBeth.

hahahaha the Bernstein massacre…, Great article, fascinating.

‘When I conduct these symphonies in Russia, there’s still an unspoken understanding of the songs, the messages. I’m curious as to what recording I should turn to for a strict adherence to the proper tempos of the last movement? I’ve told friends for years that some day I wanted to write a book about Shostakovich  5. Shostakovich was partially rehabilitated and the piece went on to become one of the most frequently played works in the twentieth century. 4 (1935–36) were withdrawn. In 1934-5 Shostakovich had fallen in love with Elena Konstantinovskya. The fact that the editorial was unsigned indicated that it represented the official Party position. Michael Tilson Thomas conducted, INSTRUMENTATION: 2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets and high clarinet in E-flat, 2 bassoons and contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, triangle, cymbals, bass drum, tam-tam, bells, xylophone, 2 harps, piano, celesta, and strings.

The composer himself seemed to second this view long after the fact, in a conversation with author Chinghiz Aitmatov in the late 1960s. The climax is harsh; the close, with the gentle friction of minor (the strings) and major (the scales in the celesta), is wistfully inconclusive. The work is largely sombre despite the composer's official claim that he wished to write a positive work. Conservative estimates place the Gulag population at between nine and 15 million. The famous Fifth Symphony is one of Shostakovich’s most performed. (In his defence, Bernstein, throughout his career, was generally  more scrupulous in his observance of many of the other metronome markings in the symphony than Mravinsky, who tends to speed through the symphony’s slow music). The same work was essentially received two different ways. He completed his Fourth Symphony in April but withdrew the work the following year while it was in rehearsal.

Shostakovich was asked whether he “fully accepted the criticism of his work” in the Pravda articles.

It’s most fun to check them yourself- there’s a great iPhone app called BPM or Beats Per Minute, where you can tap the beats of whatever you’re listening to and it tells you the exact tempo. Artistically, this blow came at a terrible moment for the coposer. '"[7], Once he completed the score, Shostakovich was apparently uncertain how to proceed. On November 7, 1990, at the intermission of a rehearsal, I approached Sanderling and told him I was taken by his comments about Shostakovich, Volkov, and “Testimony,” and I asked if he would sign my copy of the book. The most striking features of the big works immediately preceding the Fifth Symphony are dissonance, dissociation, and an exuberant orchestral style. I’ve long since lost my notes from when I tempo checked everyone about 8 years ago, but the Russians tend to be closest in the last mvt to the markings. [10], The manuscript score for the Fourth Symphony was lost during World War II.

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