JORGE MESTER INVITES YOU TO LISTEN TO SOME OF THE VARIOUS THEMES FOUND IN THE SHOSTAKOVICH'S SYMPHONY NO. 4.
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Jorge Mester, Conductor
Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 22 in E-Flat Major
(The Philosopher)
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, op. 43
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The composers of the two symphonies on today’s concert were very much products of their time. Franz Joseph Haydn was a member of a nobleman’s court in the Hapsburg Empire. By the time he left the court in 1890, society had changed: the rise of the middle class went hand in hand with a decrease in court life. Haydn is known to some as Papa Haydn, Father of the Classical Period, and his compositions sweep from Baroque-style works through the quintessential Classical forms. Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the first composers to come of age in the Soviet Union. He weathered the changes in the twentieth century as Stalin rose to power and seized control of the country’s culture and society
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