Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 9 [With score] (Reupload)

-Composer: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) -Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne [WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln] -Conductor: Rudolf Borisovich Barshai Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, op. 70, written in 1945 00:10 - I. Allegro 05:26 - II. Moderato 11:08 - III. Presto 14:03 - IV. Largo 17:10 - V. Allegretto Shostakovich composed this work for Schumann-sized orchestra plus percussion in the summer of 1945, and Yevgeny Mravinsky led the first performance at Leningrad on November 3 of that year. Given the size of Shostakovich&war-haunted seventh and eighth symphonies, Joseph Stalin expected a Ninth in 1945 that "out-Mahlered Beethoven," in the late Boris Schwarz&phrase. In Testimony, Solomon Volkov recalled the composer&saying, "They wanted a fanfare from me, an ode, a majestic Ninth....I doubt that Stalin ever questioned his own genius or greatness. But when the war against Hitler was won, he went off the deep end, like a frog puffing himself up to the size of an ox, and now I was supposed to write an apotheosis of Stalin. I simply could not....My stubbornness cost me dearly." Volkov called the Ninth a work "full of sarcasm and bitterness." Disguised as an homage to Haydn, it was Shostakovich&shortest symphony since the Second of 1927, despite having five movements (the last three are played without pause). In an effort to shield Shostakovich from political fallout, conductor Mravinsky called the new symphony "a joyous sigh of...