Debate rolls on about the Shostakovich Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 ("Leningrad"). Was it really about Leningrad in World War II? It seems to have been started and perhaps planned before the German invasion. Was it really about the Germans? Shostakovich's maybe-amanuensis Solomon Volkov has him saying it was about the city that Stalin destroyed, and Hitler merely finished off. Is the work a towering response to a critical chapter of 20th century life or a bombastic concession to Soviet cultural dictates? The debates ...
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Debate rolls on about the Shostakovich Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 ("Leningrad"). Was it really about Leningrad in World War II? It seems to have been started and perhaps planned before the German invasion. Was it really about the Germans? Shostakovich's maybe-amanuensis Solomon Volkov has him saying it was about the city that Stalin destroyed, and Hitler merely finished off. Is the work a towering response to a critical chapter of 20th century life or a bombastic concession to Soviet cultural dictates? The debates simply show the work's continuing vitality, an aspect of which is elegantly captured in this live recording by Gianandrea Noseda, leading the London Symphony Orchestra. The symphony is perhaps the most Mahlerian of Shostakovich's 15, ranging from tragedy to jackbooted thugs to angry satire, but many of its passages seem to show a silent city, living under a sense of foreboding. Noseda demands much of the London Symphony in the work's lengthy quiet passages; these can easily drag, but...
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