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Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op 43

Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Performers: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: John Storg氓rds
Recording date: 11 October 2014
Date of broadcast: 11 October 2014

A review of this symphony's premiere was headlined "Muddle instead of music". Not good news for a composer in Stalin's Russian during the mid-1930s Purges. This work is a thinly veiled musical criticism of the times: people's fear, anger, and doubt. Music like this has the power to condemn but also to threaten the life of its writer!

Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Performers: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: John Storg氓rds
Recording date: 11 October 2014
Date of broadcast: 11 October 2014

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