BBC Philharmonic Orchestra * Shostakovich: Sym No. 2 To October: Sym No. 5 [New CD] RSDBF24 politics and culture established him

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BBC Philharmonic Orchestra * Shostakovich: Sym No. 2 To October: Sym No. 5 [New CD] RSDBF24 politics and culture established himCommissioned by the Propaganda Department of the Soviet State Music Publishing House to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, the 'Symphonic Dedication to October' eventually became Shostakovich's Second Symphony, and was first performed, in Leningrad, in 1927. It is a short, through composed work of around twenty minutes, it's structure involving four sections. It opens with a Largo meant to portray the primordial chaos from