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- Date Released: June 6, 2005
- Genre: Classical
- Style: Orchestral, 20th Century
- Label: LSO Live / IODA
A powerful work inspired by dark times.
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Shostakovich maintained that World War II, for all its horrors and privations, was in a perverse way a relief for Soviet citizens: They were at last allowed to grieve openly in a way they hadn't been able to during the mass-psychosis years of Stalin's Terror. For Shostakovich, this grieving took the form of his Eighth Symphony: his darkest symphony and in the opinion of some his finest. Under the baton of conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, who experienced these times firsthand as a child, the symphony's bleak passages are benumbed and hollow, while the aggressive ones evoke a heavy-handed savagery that surely, in Rostropovich's mind, as in Shostakovich's, was connected to the Soviet regime itself.
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Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65: I. Adagio - Allegro non troppo
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26:34 |
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Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65: II. Allegretto
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6:46 |
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Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65: III. Allegro non troppo
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7:07 |
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Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65: IV. Largo
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12:01 |
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Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65: V. Allegretto
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16:16 |
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05 Total Tracks, 68:44 Total Length
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