Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 - Complete Symphonies, V

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Label
Alpha
Release Date
November 28, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Dmitri Shostakovich
    • PERFORMER
      Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Alain Altinoglu
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 28, 2025
    • UPC
      3701624511732
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1173
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegretto poco moderato -

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt

      Conductor: Alain Altinoglu

    2. I. Presto

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt

      Conductor: Alain Altinoglu

    3. II. Moderato con moto -

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt

      Conductor: Alain Altinoglu

    4. III. Largo -

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt

      Conductor: Alain Altinoglu

    5. III. Allegro

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt

      Conductor: Alain Altinoglu

    6. I. Moderato

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt

      Conductor: Alain Altinoglu

    7. II. Allegretto

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt

      Conductor: Alain Altinoglu

    8. III. Largo

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt

      Conductor: Alain Altinoglu

    9. IV. Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt

      Conductor: Alain Altinoglu


Alain Altinoglu and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra have begun to record the complete symphonies of Shostakovich, starting with his Fourth and Fifth symphonies. Shostakovich dared to express human suffering, passion, fear and catastrophe in his music, but always asking the same nagging question: what is man? In this sense, these two symphonies open with a question - an idea of martyrdom that was to become one of the central ideas of his later symphonies and, of course, of his Lady MacBeth of Mzensk. Both symphonies are dated between 1935-1937 when Shostakovich was in his thirties; this was one of the darkest and most difficult phases of his life, marked as it was by the repercussions of some of his writings and the arrest of many people close to him, including members of his family.