BBC Philharmonic Orchestra * Shostakovich: Sym No. 2 To October: Sym No. 5 [New CD] RSDBF24 'Cello Concerto'

'Cello Concerto'

and with the Rachmaninoff International Orchestra nearly 30 years later

politics and culture established him as a committed writer and intellectual

Mills (Hostile) on guitar and Sean Elg (DeathRiders/Cage) on drums

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra * Shostakovich: Sym No. 2 To October: Sym No. 5 [New CD] RSDBF24 'Cello Concerto'Commissioned 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