Shostakovich - Symphoni No 8

Shostakovich - Symphony No 8



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1. 1 No.24 in D Minor

2. 2 No.7 in A Major

3. No.8 in F Sharp Minor

4. No.6 in B Minor

5. No.22 in G Minor

6. No.20 in C MinorComposer:

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Composer

Title:

Symphony No.8 in C minor, Op.65



Artists:

London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra

André Previn, Conductor



Recording Information

Recording Date:

October 1992

Live / Studio:

Studio

Produced by:

Alison Ames, Executive Produce

Arend Prohmann, Recording Producer



The Symphony No. 8 in C minor (Opus 65) by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in the summer of 1943, and first performed on November 4 of that year by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky, to whom the work is dedicated.



The symphony is vaguely in the tradition of C minor "tragedy to triumph" symphonies begun with Beethoven's Fifth and including Bruckner's Eighth and Mahler's Second; although, there is considerable dispute over just how optimistic the ending is, since it ends very quietly. Shostakovich's friend Isaak Glikman called the symphony "his most tragic work".[1]



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