Artist: Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko
Album: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 26:03
Total Tracks: 5
Total Size: 438 MB

Tracklist:

1. Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko – Symphony No. 9 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70: I. Allegro (05:10)
2. Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko – Symphony No. 9 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70: II. Moderato (07:19)
3. Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko – Symphony No. 9 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70: III. Presto (02:43)
4. Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko – Symphony No. 9 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70: IV. Largo (04:18)
5. Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko – Symphony No. 9 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70: V. Allegretto (06:30)

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The 9th Symphony in E-flat Major, Opus 70 by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1944 and 1945. It is a five-movement symphony with an opening movement in classical sonata form.

With his Ninth Symphony, the composer then made a surprising about-face, so that he had to remain silent as a symphonist until after Stalin’s death – in order to survive himself. Not only the tradition-heavy numbering of the Ninth, but also the fact that the war had been won led the people and officials of the Soviet Union to hope for a gigantic heroic celebration. Instead of redemption at the end of the war, Shostakovich saw the countless victims – and the approach of the next catastrophe. In the distancing tone of Viennese classicism and with grotesque cheerfulness, his Ninth therefore depicts a circus world that held up a distorting mirror to the regime.