Vienna Symphony play Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony
Enrique Mazzola conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's symphonic poem The Tempest and Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony at the Festspielhaus in Bregenz.
Enrique Mazzola conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's "The Tempest" and Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony at the Festspielhaus in Bregenz.
Shostakovich completed his Tenth Symphony just after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. It has been described as "48 minutes of tragedy, despair, terror, and violence and two minutes of triumph". The most widely accepted interpretation of the symphony is that it's a musical depiction of the Stalin years in the Soviet Union, when between eight and twenty million people died as a direct or indirect result of Stalin鈥檚 regime and when those who didn鈥檛 lived in constant fear. Shostakovich felt the capriciousness of Stalin鈥檚 rule first-hand 鈥� he was publicly denounced, his works banned, and his status reduced to that of a 鈥渘on-person.鈥� Friends and colleagues disappeared, many of them never to return. The horror of these three decades 鈥� and the collective sigh of relief that doubtlessly followed Stalin's death 鈥� certainly make a plausible programme for Shostakovich鈥檚 Tenth.
Tchaikovsky: The Tempest, fantasy after Shakespeare, Op.18
Shostakovich: Symphony No.10 in E minor, Op.93
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Enrique Mazzola (conductor)
Festspielhaus, Bregenz
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Tempest - symphonic fantasia after Shakespeare, Op 18
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Symphony No.10 in E minor, Op.93
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