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Symphony No5 Op47 Full Score Dsch New Collected Works Volume 5 Ncw 5
(DSCH). These volumes are the first releases of an ambitious series by DSCH, the exclusive publisher of the works of Shostakovich. Each volume contains: new engravings; articles regarding the history of the compositions; facsimile pages of Shostakovich's manuscripts, outlines and rough drafts; plus interpretations of the manuscripts. In total, 150 volumes are planned for publication.
176 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1980
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November 5, 2021
OMG, just listen to it... carefully, over and over and over again, with an open heart. Music like this can change your life. This symphony has lived in my soul for almost 50 years. It NEVER gets old. The third movement will make you cry with sympathy every time. The finale will make you rage with emotion as you pound your fist to the final bass drum beats and leave you breathless. As Shostakovich tells it, in this symphony which he wrote to redeem himself after getting into trouble with the authorities, the triumphant but mockingly sounding finale depicts the authorities beating him with a stick as they shout: "You WILL write triumphant music praising the people, You WILL write triumphant music!"
This rather expensive ($85) volume published by the Moscow publisher DSCH is the full symphony score, something I've waited to own for years. Now I can see and study the notes and slowly gain knowledge of the structure of Shostakovich's genius. But to appreciate this amazing music, you must learn about his life, about what he endured as an artist, how he managed to compose such amazing music under such horrifying conditions of threat of arrest and execution... how this one symphony redeemed him from possible disappearance and death during the worst years of Stalin's reign of terror where millions (yes MILLIONS) of Russians and other Soviet ethnicities perished in the Gulag camps.
Learn what you can about this amazing piece of musical art, and listen to it over and over and over again. There are dozens and dozens of recordings of it. Here's one with Michael Tilson Thomas explaining and playing the work (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3RbW...). And then contemplate that it is only one of fourteen other symphonies Shostakovich wrote, each waiting to be discovered.
This rather expensive ($85) volume published by the Moscow publisher DSCH is the full symphony score, something I've waited to own for years. Now I can see and study the notes and slowly gain knowledge of the structure of Shostakovich's genius. But to appreciate this amazing music, you must learn about his life, about what he endured as an artist, how he managed to compose such amazing music under such horrifying conditions of threat of arrest and execution... how this one symphony redeemed him from possible disappearance and death during the worst years of Stalin's reign of terror where millions (yes MILLIONS) of Russians and other Soviet ethnicities perished in the Gulag camps.
Learn what you can about this amazing piece of musical art, and listen to it over and over and over again. There are dozens and dozens of recordings of it. Here's one with Michael Tilson Thomas explaining and playing the work (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3RbW...). And then contemplate that it is only one of fourteen other symphonies Shostakovich wrote, each waiting to be discovered.
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