The Dutch composer, music journalist and novelist Elmer Schonberger once described the Second Symphony as a sub-genre of a primarily psychological nature, albeit with considerable stylistic...
Shostakovich / Netherlands Radio Choir Symphonies No. 1 - 3 Super-Audio CD1. Symphony No.1 in F minor, Op.10 2. Symphony No.2 in B Flat Major, Op.14 3. To October 4. Symphony No.3 in E Flat Major, Op...
Completed in 1936 but withdrawn during rehearsal and not performed until 1961, the searing Fourth Symphony finds Shostakovich stretching his musical idiom to the limit in the search for a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...
Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.4 portrays another side of the composer, one hitherto unseen by the general public. No major battles are fought in this symphony; rather it is a childlike vision of life...