Shostakovich - Symphony No. 8 | Andris Poga | WDR Symphony Orchestra
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- Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8, C minor op. 65, performed by the WDR Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Andris Poga. Recorded live on May 24, 2024 in the Cologne Philharmonic Hall.
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 8 in C minor op. 65
00:00:00 - I. Adagio
00:26:33 - II. Allegretto
00:33:25 - III. allegro non troppo
00:39:49 - IV. Largo
00:51:25 - V. Allegretto
Andris Poga, conductor
WDR Symphony Orchestra
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Introduction to the work:
The October Revolution in Russia in 1917 was not only a political paradigm shift with dramatic social consequences, it was also a profound aesthetic turning point. In terms of sound, this could hardly be clearer than in the comparison of Skjrabin's Piano Concerto with Dmitri Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony. With unadorned realism, Shostakovich turns the tribulations of the totalitarian regime and the horrors of war into music in this work.
The political situation in the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin was characterized by sheer arbitrariness. The regime had people arrested or disappeared for no reason and executed hundreds of thousands of people on false charges. Shostakovich had his fateful experience with Stalin's long arm in connection with his opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk". The dictator had attended a performance at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow in 1936 and railed against it with great disgust. Two days later, the infamous article "Chaos instead of music" appeared in the party newspaper Pravda, which was followed by a ban on the performance of the opera. Shostakovich was thus fully aware that his compositions were under particular scrutiny. From then on, he felt compelled, if not to fulfill the demands of so-called Socialist Realism unconditionally, then to undermine them in the most subtle of ways. Best known in this context is his Fifth Symphony, in which the question of the extent to which the radiant ending is to be understood as ironically broken is still debated today.
Against this background, the Eighth is nothing less than a testimony to immeasurable courage. The work was composed after Soviet troops had defeated the German invaders in the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942/43. And the composer was aware that he was expected to write a work that paid musical homage to this event. Instead, Shostakovich wrote music of pain, grief and despair in his Eighth - about the victims of the dictatorship and the horrors of war.
(Text: Otto Hagedorn)
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Anyone can express intensity, but human beings are not one dimensional, we are complex, we have context, flaws, hopes, needs. Without Dmitri Shostakovich the richness of humanity at that time may have been swamped and lost. His music is such a gift. To have a conductor to take it beyond history and bring it life for those who did not live it without just smacking us in the face is also a gift. loved it.
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Diese Musik ist unglaublich. Ich bin sprachlos. Danke von Herzen!
Danke, wie schön, dass Ihnen unsere Version gefällt!
Danke! ❤
Wie wunderbar Jérémy Sassano sein Solo gespielt hat. Ich bin gerührt und beeindruckt (17:56 bis 21:21)
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Wunderbar die Bläser. Besonders natürlich die Oboe . Chapeau
Vielen Dank! 😊
00:39:49 - IV. Largo
Sehr schön dieser 1. Satz. Man kann ihn anfangs nicht ad hoc als Komposition von DS erkennen. Ansonsten ist das ja oft der Fall .
If put to it I would say that only the first desk of the 2nd violins understands the mental torture that experiencing this symphony requires.
Danke! ❤