Alain Altinoglu and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra have begun their recording of Shostakovich's complete symphonies, starting with the fourth and fifth symphonies. Shostakovich dared to express human suffering, passion, fear and catastrophe in his music, always asking the same agonizing question: What is man? In this sense, these two symphonies begin with a question - an idea of martyrdom, which was to become one of the central ideas of his later symphonies and, of course, of his Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Both symphonies date from 1935-1937, when Shostakovich was in his thirties; this was one of the darkest and most difficult periods of his life, marked by the repercussions of some of his writings and the imprisonment of many people close to him, including members of his family.
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