Symphony No 5
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SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No 5
London Symphony Orchestra / Mstislav Rostropovich-conductor
[ LSO Live / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 4 September 2002
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'a Rostropovich performance is impossible to experience in the abstract. The Fifth Symphony breathed out a sense of moral struggle'
The Times, 9 July 2004
'This supposed "Soviet artist's reply to just criticism" has always had the ideological factions of Shostakovich academics arguing over whether the symphony was intended as a genuine contrition for past "misdeeds" or a more subtle, two-edged apologia that is nothing of the sort. Rostropovich is most definitely of the latter view, to judge by the sheer weight he brought to this performance and the riveting playing he inspired from his players … one feels Shostakovich's trauma behind every note of the music.' , 9 July 2004
Daily Telegraph, 9 July 2004
'a Rostropovich performance is impossible to experience in the abstract. The Fifth Symphony breathed out a sense of moral struggle'
The Times, 9 July 2004
