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	Symphony No. 5 (Mahler) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler was written in 1901 and 1902 mostly during the summer months at Mahler's cottage at Maiernigg.
		The piece is generally regarded as Mahler's most conventional symphony up to that point, but from such an unconventional composer it still had many peculiarities.
		The symphony is sometimes reproduced with the key assignment C sharp minor, but Mahler himself objected against this assignment:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Mahler) (345 words)

	Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor was written in 1804-1807.
		The symphony is one of the most popular and well-known compositions in all of classical music, and is frequently performed and recorded.
		The symphony stands with the Third Symphony and Ninth Symphony as the most revolutionary of Beethoven's symphonies, and indeed, all his compositions.
	encyclopedia.localcolorart.com /encyclopedia/Symphony_No._5_(Beethoven) (1683 words)

	Belle Epoque - Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		By composing the Fifth Symphony, Mahler enters a new creative period which the musicologists often call the "middle period"; although this point of view is not undisputed at all in the world of classical music, I as a Mahler fan nevertheless adopt it.
		5, 6 and 7 have in common - contrarily to the first four symphonies - that there are no programmatic indications, that Mahler renounces on the human voice and that he uses the counterpoint in a remarkable way.
		The orchestration is in no way inferior to the tenderness of the composition divided in three parts: Strings are exclusively used to play a clear and longing tune accompanied by a harp playing in a way the role of a Basso Continuo.
	www.labellepoque.de /mahler/sinf05_e.htm (1189 words)

	Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Danish composer Carl Nielsen, though little-known to the general public, was arguably one of the most important forces in the development of the modern symphony.
		Although Denmark was not directly involved in the conflict, it was impossible for a Dane as worldly as Nielsen to ignore the horrors that had been inflicted upon the continent.
		His Fifth Symphony is a reflection of these impressions, an attempt to capture the inherent conflict between man's better instincts and the inclination towards evil.
	fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu /geoff/prognotes/nielsen/symphony5.html (242 words)

	INKPOT#37/95 CLASSICAL MUSIC FEATURES: SIBELIUS A Tribute and Inktroduction to the Fifth Symphony
		But no, the symphony that Sibelius created was almost the complete opposite: life-affirming, heroic, noble, and brimming with humanity in the face of nature's majesty.
		And yet, throughout, there is no sense of a break, no sense that there has been a "change." It is as if continents have sailed their way across the earth, changing climates, changing flora and fauna, and yet the land remains the same.
		Yes and no. Unlike the "high modernists", Sibelius still composed music that is on the surface optimistic and melodic; but like his counterparts, he too was aware of the renewed 20th century interest in the neo-classical ideal of form.
	inkpot.com /classical/sibsym5.html (2777 words)

	Instead of a Blog - Three Great Symphonies
		Martinu's Fourth Symphony is far happier, less dramatic, and I won't say anything against it other than to state that it doesn't hold a candle to the great windstorm that is the Fifth.
		Martinu's final symphony moves beyond his previous level of structural ingenuity and dramatic emotional presto-chango gymnastics, achieving probably his greatest music; the symphony is a landmark effort, on the level with the best symphonies of Sibelius in terms of astounding mastery and mysterious sound.
		There is no point in either waxing eloquent on the emotional impact of the music, or analyzing in depth the structure, which for the life of me I don't understand.
	www.insteadofablog.com /2003.11.14.shtml (2294 words)

	Program Notes
		He composed the Symphony No. 5 in 1901-02 and led the first performance with the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne on October 18, 1904, having conducted a read-through with the Vienna Philharmonic earlier that year.
		Yet again the trumpet recalls the symphony’s first bars, but this time, suddenly, with utmost violence and across a brutally simple accompaniment, violins fling forth a whipping downward scale and the trumpet is pushed to scream its anguish.
		When all is done, though, no one is in the mood for an exalted close, and the symphony ends on a shout of laughter.
	www.sfsymphony.org /templates/pgmnote.asp?nodeid=3122&callid=3143 (1618 words)

	Oregon Symphony: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A co-commission of the New York City Ballet, the London Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra, Adams wrote the Violin Concerto between January 7 and November 1 of 1993.
		The Fifth Symphony was premiered on November 21, 1937 in Shostakovich's hometown of Leningrad, with the Leningrad Philharmonic under the direction of Yevgeny Mravinsky.
		Although this symphony is an "absolute" piece of music (i.e., there is no extra-musical story or narrative attached to it), Shostakovich did include a brief description of "a lengthy spiritual battle, crowned by victory" in the program notes.
	www.orsymphony.org /concerts/0405/programnotes/classical6.html (2015 words)

	Beethoven Symphony No. 5
		Beethoven composed the Fifth Symphony on the heels of the completed Eroica, and at a time when many works were coming to fruition: the Rasumovsky Quartets, the Fourth Piano Concerto, the Violin Concerto and the Fourth and Sixth Symphonies.
		In this sense, the wanderings and re-creations of the Fate motive partake of the poetic sense of fantasia and might be heard in that spirit rather than in the spirit of determinism or fatalism.
		Though difficult to imagine today, Beethoven and his Fifth Symphony were not entirely embraced by the music establishment of the early nineteenth century.
	www.chambersymphony.com /ProgramNotes/Beethoven5.htm (441 words)

	Recordings - Symphony no. 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		There is no way words can describe the overwhelming effect of a sensitive conductor and an outstanding orchestra in the passages starting at RN 27, leading to the two magnificent chorales, a joyous outcry in D Major, ending in the fine horns at RN 30 - not overdone, but perfectly voiced and magnificently recorded.
		The voicings again are superb, everything in the complex passages in its place, no overdrawn voices, the oboe quacks nicely, the string playing leading up to the clarinet swirls at RN 29 excellent, the chorale before the coda nicely judged, and the last few bars controlled but as joyous as I could wish for.
		No need to go on, this movement is a gem, and Sir John's reading, by no means even near the slowest on record, certainly is in accord with Mahler's wishes for it not to be rushed.
	www.mahlerfest.org /2001/recordings.htm (5432 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts \| Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5
		It is bracketed in Vaughan Williams's symphonic development by two very different works, the violent and extreme Fourth Symphony of 1935, which seems to foreshadow the world-wide conflagration to come, and the Sixth (1947), which inhabits a world totally numbed by the horror of what that war has produced.
		There is a dark undertow to the symphony, which wells up most clearly in the scherzo's brusque brass punctuations and in the troubled central section of the slow movement.
		The landscapes that the Fifth explores are by no means as benign as they at first appear, and the finest interpreters of the work do not mistake the surface calm for the key to the whole work.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/keynotes/story/0,11111,784997,00.html (367 words)

	Symphony No. 5
		In any event, he did complete the Second Symphony, and this time he conducted the premiere himself; it was a great success, and ten months after the premiere the work brought him another Glinka Prize.
		In both of Rachmaninoff's four-movement symphonies (the last, No. 3, is cast in three movements) the scherzo precedes the slow movement, following a pattern established by Borodin and Balakirev (and taken up later by Shostakovich and Prokofiev).
		The scherzo in the Second is vigorous to the point of abandon, but with a lyrical second subject related to the initial motif of the preceding movement, which in fact serves as a âmottoâ for the entire work.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2845 (1120 words)

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		The premiere Saturday evening of Glass' "Symphony No. 5 (Choral): Requiem, Bardo and Nirmanakaya," was the last major event of the Salzburg summer (the five-week festival ended Sunday).
		The symphony's triumph begins with its text, a remarkable collection of sacred quotations compiled with the help of the Rev. James Parks Morton of the Interfaith Center of New York and Kusumita P. Pedersen.
		The symphony, which begins with pre-creation in a weighty prologue, does take a while to prove itself as it works through the creation of the cosmos, sentient beings and human beings.
	www.chesternovello.com /work/15235/main.html (1355 words)

	Symphony No. 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Throughout the symphony, dark or luminous 'pools' of slow music, in which an individual moment is magnified into an infinity, represent a new and important 'fermata principle' for Davies and linger in the memory long after the work has ended.
		Harmonically and melodically, the symphony is extraordinary in its use of triads liberated from any tonal associations: Davies here invests the triad with the status of a particular consonance that takes its place within an overall hierarchy.
		The Symphony No. 5 was commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra, who gave its world première, conducted by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, in a BBC Promenade concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London on 9 August 1994.
	www.maxopus.com /works/symph_5.htm (3995 words)

	Shostakovich's fifth symphony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		`The idea behind my symphony is the making of a man. I saw him, with all his experience, at the centre of the work, which is lyrical from beginning to end.
		Shostakovich's fourth symphony was withdrawn from rehearsal soon afterwards.
		It is said that the applause after the symphony finished was longer than the symphony itself, so overcome were the audience with the emotion of having listened to a piece of music that wasn't merely political hackwork, and that wasn't afraid to display some real human emotion.
	www.cl.cam.ac.uk /users/mn200/music/shostakovich/fifth-symphony.html (601 words)

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		It was commissioned by the Kalmar Nyckel Commemorative Committee to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the establishment of New Sweden.
		An explosive final section, returning to the drum rolls and trumpet calls of its origin, concludes the symphony, which is notable for its scoring for the lower registers.
		The dominant contours of Lees' symphony have slashing drum rolls, dramatic fanfares for brass, triumphant bells, haunting string passages and pulsating dance figures.
	home.dc.rr.com /bglees/symph5.htm (685 words)

	Symphony No. 5 - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions
		Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor was written in 1807-1808.
		The four-note motif is repeated in various forms throughout the symphony and serves to unite it thematically.
		The allegro finale is interrupted by a brief, haunting reprise of the scherzo theme before the symphony ends triumphantly in C major.
	www.questionz.net /Beethoven/Symphony_No_5.html (385 words)

	Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor
		This was no small matter; most who drew the dictator's wrath soon died in a labor camp.
		Despite the risk of associating with an ``enemy of the people,'' the Leningrad Philharmonic agreed to premiere it, but the rehearsals went badly, and it became clear to Shostakovich that a performance of such a forward-looking work would be dangerous to his life.
		The symphony has become Shostakovich's most popular work, and the relatively recent revelation of its true meaning can only enhance our enjoyment of this testament to one man's struggle to express his people's anguish under a brutal tyrant.
	fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu /geoff/prognotes/shostakovich/symphony5.html (647 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - Classical - Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony
		Things were slow to start, and although the inspiration soon began to gather momentum, before starting work on the instrumentation Tchaikovsky wrote to his patron Mme von Meck that there was "none of the former lightness and constant readiness of material" in the work.
		However, in time his opinion of the symphony began to improve and he came to love it, and was especially delighted to receive Brahms's approval upon hearing it.
		This struggle with Fate is also expressed in his Fourth and Sixth Symphonies, and in the Fifth, although Tchaikovsky never says as much in words, the Finale is a clear representation of the triumph over Fate, as the opening theme finally reappears transformed into the major key and at a faster tempo.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/classical/listen/tchaikovsky_symphony5.shtml (417 words)

	Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		As one whose first experience with Mahler 5 is the von Karajan, I find the most striking thing about Sir Barbirolli's reading of Mahler 5 is the excessively slow tempi in just about all the movements.
		Usually, listen tends to judge Mahler's symphony no.5 based on the 1st movement, which is a dark and emotional funeral march.
		This was my first Mahler 5, 'twas so because of that classic status, but I'm no longer convinced, especially since there are a plethora of excellent modern recordings that have surpassed it.
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	[Mahler - Symphony No 5] notes by Paul Serotsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Symphony No. 1 was symbiotically interlinked with Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen, and Symphonies 2, 3 and 4 included sung texts whose meanings cannot be ignored.
		In considering the structure of the Fifth Symphony, arguably his most complex and formally integrated, we need to be aware of a particular technique.
		In his first four symphonies, Mahler developed a partiality for “feeding forward” materials within his structures, including (in the Third) feeding forward a “process” from the first movement to the last.
	www.musicweb-international.com /Programme_Notes/mahler_sym5.htm (1579 words)

	INKPOT#53 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: SIBELIUS Symphony No.5 (original and final versions). LahtiSO/Vänskä (BIS)
		If the final Fifth is "light/dawn", and the Fourth Symphony is "dark/dusk", then the original Fifth is a magical aurorae of wavering darkness and light, full of mystery.
		In the final version, more human and vivid as Sibelius suggests, the composer and symphony stands on its on, proclaiming itself as child of nature, and of nature herself.
		In it is the culmination of not one symphony, but the apotheosis of the "three" Fifth Symphonies: the original 1915, the first revision of 1916 and the final 1919.
	inkpot.com /classical/sib55bis.html (1678 words)

	Pro Arte: Schubert: Symphony No. 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		His earliest symphonies were composed for performance within the family circle (how breathtaking the thought that a single family, along with perhaps a few neighbors and friends, could mount a new symphony by a nineteen-year-old son of the house for their own delectation!).
		During the four years after leaving the chapel up to the composition of the Fifth Symphony, he had composed, in addition to four earlier symphonies, a large-scale opera, works for the church, chamber music, and many, many songs (nearly 150 of them in the year 1815 alone--one-quarter of his lifetime output!).
		And in 1816 he wrote the brilliant Fifth Symphony, a work of utter naturalness in its flow, of piquant memorable melody, of simple but varied orchestral color.
	www.proarte.org /notes/schubert.htm (225 words)

	DSCH 9 Shostakovich CD Reviews - Symphony No. 5; Chamber Symphony
		Obviously, notes alone cannot convey the specifics of that meaning, but no extra-musical knowledge should be required for a listener to discern that Jansons' performance is clearly and consistently about the conflict between an individual protagonist and an implacable foe.
		In the second movement, for example, Jansons depicts a dialogue between, on the one hand, stern lower and massed strings and brass, and on the other, a free-spirited voice in high winds and violin that sounds reluctant or unable to limit its imagination to the lines it is being ordered to parrot.
		EMI have recorded the symphony at a low level, but it blooms once the volume knob is turned past its usual position.
	www.dschjournal.com /reviews/rvs9op47.htm (652 words)

	Beethoven Symphony No.5 on Record
		The work was first performed on 22 December 1808, at an enormous concert typical of the age - which also saw the first performance of the 'Pastoral' symphony, the fourth piano concerto, the Choral Fantasia and parts of the C major Mass.
		In 1995 somebody at DG finally paid attention to the plaintive cries of impoverished musiclovers and and reissued Carlos Kleiber's legendary Fifith coupled with his almost equally legendary Seventh, for one of the outstanding bargains in the Beethoven Symphony catalogue.
		Huggett may be - nay, is - a fabulous violinist; she is no conductor (even though this recording was directed from the leader's chair rather than with a baton).
	turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca:8080 /Beethoven/Symphony5 (619 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus; String Quartet No. 4; Symphony No. 5 at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The String Quartet No. 4 (1975) is a bit more mainstream – at least, by my definition – but again, cannot quite be categorized, although there are hints of composers I’ve been listening to for nearly forty years – perhaps the more ruminative aspects of Shostakovich’s chamber works, but in a tightly conceived, three-movement format.
		The Symphony No. 5, from 1986, certainly fosters no ambiguity when it begins, with a reiterated chord that builds to fortissimo, shattering into dissonance until it ebbs and begins again.
		The first part of this symphony is big and muscular, then spirals down to a dense, intricate movement, while the occasional references to the opening keep a certain amount of dramatic tension in the mix.
	www.epinions.com /content_109025529476 (689 words)

	Insight on the News: Cosmic classic: a new symphony by Philip Glass celebrates the world's major religions - Music - ...
		The latest effort by the prolific musician, "Symphony No. 5 -- Requiem, Bardo and Nirmanakaya," encompasses the history of the world in a little more than 90 minutes.
		The first performance of the symphony took place two years ago with a full orchestra, a four-part chorus, children's choir and soloists.
		Doubtless the success of the symphony, available on a Nonesuch Records recording with conductor Dante Anazolini, is due in some measure to its positive assessment of humanity.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_47_17/ai_80900400 (731 words)

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