Shostakovich - Symphony No 5 - Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, Opus 47
The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stanislaw Skrowacziewski
1 LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Pallas
Label : Speakers Corner
Original Label : Mercury
Recording: March 1961 at Northrop Memorial Auditorium, Minneapolis, USA,
by C.R. Fine and Robert Eberenz
Production: Wilma Cozart Fine
Originally released in 1962
Reissued in Aug 2006
Tracks :
- Moderato
- Allegretto
- Largo
- Allegro Non Troppo
Reviews :
One of the most fascinating aspects of Dmitri Shostakovich’s music was and still remains his aesthetic ambiguity, the likes of which is almost impossible to find in modern music. The Fifth Symphony in particular is regarded as an excellent example of how, during Stalin’s regime, Shostakovich outwardly remained true to the regulations concerning art while still managing not to forfeit his own artistic freedom and identity. Conceived in a classical vein, the work is filled with powerful motion and Russian song, even going almost as far as late-Romantic transfiguration. But this idyll is deceptive. Again and again the apparent harmony is disrupted by biting sarcasm: the spirited main theme of the first movement soon stiffens into a march-like farce, while in the untroubled second movement a shrill motif in the winds tears apart the cheerful mood.
Skrowacziewski amalgamates the contrasting tender sweetness of the violins and the violence of the attacking wind instruments in his precise and sparing interpretation, which is free of sugary expression and forced dynamics. His well-balanced conducting, combined with the wonderfully transparent recorded sound creates an ideal basis for identifying all the details which Shostakovich composed 'between the lines of the staff'.
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