Three weeks after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Shostakovich volunteered with the Home Guard in Leningrad. As the siege of the city intensified, he worked on his Seventh...
Mravinsky's only recorded version, now re-mastered from recently discovered sources1. War, Allegretto 2. Memories, Moderato (Poco Allegretto) 3. My Native Field, Adagio 4. Victory, Allegro Non Troppo
Completed in 1936 but withdrawn during rehearsal and not performed until 1961, the searing Fourth Symphony finds Shostakovich stretching his musical idiom to the limit in the search for a personal...