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	Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra \| Purchase Tickets \| Calendar \| Piece
		Soon after the success of his Symphony No. 5 in late 1937, Shostakovich announced that he was working on a "Lenin" Symphony.
		Well after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, Shostakovich accepted commissions for two "public symphonies": No. 11, honoring the abortive revolution of 1905, and-soon thereafter- No. 12, a work "dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" in commemoration of the successful Revolution in 1917.
		The Eleventh Symphony is a vast tapestry of Russian folk song, revolutionary songs, political oppression and unquenchable human spirit all expressed through orchestral voices throughout its four continuous movements.
	www.milwaukeesymphony.org /purchasetickets/calendar/piece.asp?id=60043424 (677 words)

	Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The symphony is highly programmatic, a large-scale tribute to the "victory" of the Great October Revolution of 1917, composed on the 40th anniversary of the occasion.
		This symphony was premiered in Moscow October 30, 1957, with the USSR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nathan Rakhlin.
		Stokowski conducted the symphony on his Russian tour that year, and the performance with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, with the composer in the audience, is available on Russian Disc (15 100).
	classicalcdreview.com /shos11.html (447 words)

	InternetEd Reviews: Shostakovich- Symphony No. 11 (Mstislav Rostropovich) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Dmitry Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 has always been an impressive and somewhat jarring piece of music that effectively depicts the shock and horror of the czarist forces’ slaughtering of protesters in pre-Soviet era Russia.
		Symphony No. 11 begins so subtly that it seems almost inaudible, but as the symphony progresses a truly dynamic (and occasionally majestic) musical work is unveiled.
		Although Symphony No. 11 is lengthy and utterly dark in nature, Rostropovich and the London Symphony Orchestra manage to deliver an amazingly powerful performance of the work, giving it an accentuated feeling of both tension and release that was lacking in previous recordings.
	www.interneted.com /Reviewpages/shostakovichsymphony11.htm (212 words)

	The Joachim Raff Society - Symphony No.11 "The Winter"
		The Symphony No.11 in a op 214 "The Winter" is both the last in a series of symphonies describing the four seasons and the last Symphony undertaken by Raff.
		The symphony was premiered in February 1883 in Wiesbaden under the direction of Louis Lüstner.
		The second movement is without title; somewhat unexpected for Raff's programmatic symphonies, although one surmises that this was the most incomplete section of the symphony at the time of Raff's death and that the composer had been unable to settle on a suitable title before he died.
	www.raff.org /symph11.htm (718 words)

	Symphony No. 11 (B. & H.), in G Major ("Military") - Haydn
		The Symphony in G major -- No. 11 of the Breitkopf and Härtel edition -- was written in 1794.
		The greater length of the movement, its ingenious harmonic treatment, the stubborn character in the sforzando strokes after the second theme appears fortissimo, the crisp staccato scales in broken thirds in the violins, stamp this Allegro as one of the most important the master has left.
		The composer has made masterly use of the drums, cymbals, and triangle, in the various repeats of the simple theme, relying almost entirely on the tone-colors of the diffrent orchestral instruments and their combination for the maintaining of the interest in the simple march theme.
	www.musicwithease.com /haydn-symphony-no-11.html (476 words)

	Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Symphony No. 11 in G minor (Opus 103; subtitled The Year 1905) by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1957 and premiered by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Natan Rakhlin on 30 October 1957.
		The symphony has four movements played without break:
		The title, The Year 1905, recalls the start of the first Russian Revolution of 1905, which was partially fired by the events on January 9th (January 9 by the Julian calendar still in use in Russia at the time, modern date of 22 January 1905) date of that year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._11_(Shostakovich) (526 words)

	Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103, "The Year 1905"
		The Symphony No. 11, composed for the 40th anniversary of the 1917 Revolution, was introduced in Moscow on October 30, 1957, by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Nathan Rakhlin.
		The Fifth Symphony, the work with which he ârehabilitatedâ himself in 1937 after his major fall from official grace the previous year, was introduced with the apologetic note, âA Soviet artist's practical, creative reply to just criticismâ (which may not have been the composer's own words).
		That there has been no conclusive resolution of the controversy over the motivation for this work, or its descriptive content, may be to its advantage if it is to survive as a symphony defined musically rather than as a historical document emotionally limited by the narrowness of focus that inevitably accompanies pictorial or descriptive specificity.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2875 (2366 words)

	Saint Louis Symphony
		The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra’s last performance of Symphony No. 11 was in April 1985 as part of the East Coast Tour that year.
		His Second and Third Symphonies were early paeans to the Revolution, and he followed the Eleventh Symphony with a Symphony No. 12 bearing the legend “The Year 1917.” Of these patriotic symphonies, the Eleventh is by common consensus the most moving and important.
		As a result, there is no reason to question the sincerity of the sentiments expressed in the symphony we hear now.
	www.slso.org /0203notes/sub6.htm (2470 words)

	American Symphony Orchestra Dialogues & Extensions 2003-04
		The evils of tyranny and oppression with which the Symphony deals are a pervasive theme in the music of Shostakovich, one which he well knew is timeless and universal.
		On the surface, Shostakovich's "1905" Symphony would appear to be similar in conception to both his Symphony No. 2, "Dedication to October" (1927), and Symphony No. 3, "The First of May" (1929).
		While the basic building-blocks of the Symphony may be less familiar to the non-Russian listener than to the native, Shostakovich succeeds in crafting those blocks into a vivid and compelling drama that communicates, as only music can, across national boundaries.
	www.americansymphony.org /concerts/dialogue_detail.cfm?ID=38 (591 words)

	Sleeve Notes - Robert Simpson: Symphony 11
		Like the second and seventh symphonies, Robert Simpson’s last symphony, No 11, is scored for a classical orchestra: in this case, double wind, four horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings.
		Indeed, there is a sense of spaciousness and eloquence, reminiscent of much of the slow music from the ninth and tenth symphonies but never expressed with the economy of scoring enjoyed in No 11.
		No 1, which shows some of Simpson’s most evocative scoring, scatters Nielsen’s four keys throughout the entire range of the orchestra amidst strange half-lights and high violin figurations, whereas No 2 adopts a more full-blooded mode of expression, emphasizing the interval of the fifth, both harmonically and melodically.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /notes/67500.html (992 words)

	Rued Langgaard - Symfoni No. 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		After about twelve attempts, Symphony No. 11 ended up with the title Ixion, named after the legendary king in Greek mythology who, as a punishment for having offended the gods, was bound for all eternity to a rotating wheel of flame.
		In this postcard from 1949 (without addressee) Langgaard expresses his pessimism and desperation, and refers to a "March" based on the theme from Symphony No. 11.
		Listen to the striking theme of the symphony, which is repeated again and again...
	www.langgaard.dk /liv/bio/bio9ae.htm (174 words)

	Robert Simpson: Symphony 11
		Symphony No 11 was composed in 1990 and is dedicated to Matthew Taylor (who here conducts) as a gesture of thanks for his dedication to Simpson’s symphonic works.
		In two movements, it is scored for a Classical orchestra and continually hints at manners of expression hitherto unprecedented in the history of the modern symphony; all the more tragic therefore that it was to be the conclusion of one of the greatest symphonic cycles of the twentieth century.
		This recording is released with sincere thanks to Angela Simpson, the Robert Simpson Society, the City of London Sinfonia, and all the other companies and individuals who generously contributed to it, and is dedicated to the memory of Ted Perry.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /details/67500.asp (613 words)

	Records International catalogue October 1998
		These symphonies contain vivid drama, plangent melancholy and formidable grandeur allied to a joy in orchestral color and the Fourth Symphony of 1913, formidably expansive and of Mahlerian breadth, may yet come to be recognized as a lesser masterpiece.
		Sonia Zaramella (mezzo), Antonella d'Amico (soprano), Vito Martino (tenor), Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milan; Paolo Vaglieri.
		Begoña Uriarte and Karl-Hermann Mrongovius (pianos), Eduard Brunner (clarinet), Bamberg Symphony; Hans Stadlmair.
	www.recordsinternational.com /RICatalogOct98.html (11710 words)

	classical music - andante - london symphony orchestra, 19 march 2002: shostakovich
		One of the concerts opened with the Cello Concerto No. 1 — written for Rostropovich in 1959 and among the supreme masterpieces in the instrument's repertory — and concluded with the haunting, desolate Symphony No. 11, written in 1956–57 and subtitled "The Year 1905."
		Rostropovich's powerful reading of the symphony achieves a monumentality that no other interpreter has yet approached, while bringing an element of sharpness and poignancy to the workers' songs that Shostakovich quotes throughout the piece.
		The London Symphony celebrates the 75th birthday of Mstislav Rostropovich with a concerto and symphony by the composer with whom he is most associated, Dmitri Shostakovich.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=16453&highlight=1&highlightterms=&ls (375 words)

	The Toledo Symphony :: Classics I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Stefan Sanderling leads the TSO in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony - the musical depiction of the struggle between the individual and fate that has captured the minds and ears of listeners for centuries.
		Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 11 is a moving denunciation of tyranny and an affirmation of human dignity - played out against the backdrop of the Bloody Sunday events of 1905.
		Their works encompass the immense possibilities of human existence in a way that no words can describe.
	www.toledosymphony.com /season/2005_2006/classics1.asp (176 words)

	SHOSTAKOVICH
		Shostakovich's Symphony No. 12, with its overall gloomy, depressive atmosphere, is one of the composer's most difficult for the listener, well played by the Berlin Orchestra.
		Symphony No.11 was recorded in All Hallows Church in London May 7, 1999, produced by Jeffrey James, engineered by Erdo Groot.
		Symphony No.1 was recorded in Radio Palace Hall, Moscow in February 2000, produced by Vitaly Panachenko, engineered by Nikolai Yudakov; Symphony No. 12 was recorded at the Berlin Radio in January 10, 2000, produced by Hein Dekker with Roger de Schot as audio engineer, Erdo Groot the balance engineer.
	classicalcdreview.com /vakh.htm (392 words)

	Amazon.com: Rubbra: Symphony No. 4; Symphony No. 10; Symphony No. 11: Music: Richard Hickox,Michael George,Edmund ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Edmund Rubbra's (1901-1986) Fourth Symphony (1941) addresses the fact of the war just as Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fifth Symphony does: Not by representing it, however, but by an invocation of profound religious piety and serene faith in deliverance from evil.
		The Tenth Symphony (1974), Rubbra's penultimate, pares the instrumentation down to woodwind, two horns, and strings; it also collapses the traditional four movements into a single span, as in Liszt's "Dante" Sonata or Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony.
		Symphonies 10 and 11 are equally worthwhile, but one has to learn Rubbra's musical language before completely coming to terms with them.
	www.amazon.com /Rubbra-Symphony-No-10-11/dp/B000000AXR (1377 words)

	DSCH 21 Shostakovich CD Reviews - Symphony No. 11, DePreist
		DePreist considers this symphony to be very close to his soul, and his interpretation is informed not only by study of the score but also of other key recordings, both historic and contemporary.
		It is of no small interest, then, to hear how his conception has changed in the intervening 15 years.
		Stokowski's studio recording with the Houston Symphony Orchestra from the same year offers far better acoustics, and the tam tam is audible for three seconds after being struck (EMI CDM 5 65206 2).
	www.dschjournal.com /reviews/rvs21op103.htm (1084 words)

	Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 (DE 3329)
		Much of the symphony's resonance and ambiguity lies in its direct quotation of various songs of the revolutionary period.
		In addition to his conducting duties in Oregon, he is also Principal Artistic Advisor for the Phoenix Symphony and Permanent Conductor Designate of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.
		This much anticipated release of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 continues the tradition of sonically exceptional and seriously sales-worthy releases that Delos and DePreist have consistently offered in the past.
	www.delosmus.com /item/de33/de3329.html (233 words)

	Matthias's Musical Reviews: EMI
		I must confess that the mounmental Turangalîla Symphony is beyond me. While there are parts of this piece that I find very enjoyable, most especially in the first movement, I cannot fathom the structure and thought that Messiaen put into this work.
		Of the 4th Symphony in F Minor, I have never found a work I thought to be a better study in unbridled violence.
		If there were to be a symphony to characterize the first half of the twentieth century, this would be it.
	transform.to /~mattyrat/review/emi.html (1354 words)

	1916 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		February 11 - Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
		May 11 - Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
		July 11 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1916 (2773 words)

	American Symphony Orchestra Online Ticketing
		Leon Botstein, music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, has always drawn parallels between history and politics, economics and the arts, and he develops his ASO concert performances of sometimes overlooked music of the past as a mirror for our times.
		Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) did not write his Symphony No. 11, "The Year 1905," until it was time to commemorate the revolution's 40th anniversary, in 1957.
		In the second half of the program, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11, subtitled "1905" but completed in 1957, forces us to reflect on how we conceive of, interpret, and remember history.
	www.americansymphony.org /press/index.cfm?ID=8 (948 words)

	Delos International: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11, The Year 1905 - DePreist & Oregon
		This new recording gives DePreist and the Oregon Symphony the best opportunity yet to show what they have achieved together in their 20-plus years of musical partnership.
		One of Shostakovich’s most demanding and monumental symphonic statements, the Symphony No. 11 provides a musical canvas unlike any of his other works.
		But the true message of the symphony lies much deeper and it is a message that is universal… the tendency of absolute power to be corruptive of the human spirit."
	www.delosmus.com /blog/archives/000096.html (181 words)

	Oregon Symphony Players Association
		Symphony No. 2 recorded live during concerts on September 21-23, 2002.
		Benjamin Lees, Pasacaglia for Orchestra; Vincent Persichetti, Symphony No. 4; Michael Daugherty, Philadelphia Stories for Orchestra: Sundown on South Street and Hell's Angels, featuring The Bassoon Brothers.
		Erich Wolfgang Korngold, The Sea Hawk, Symphony in F-sharp.
	www.concertgoersguide.org /onstage/cds.php (434 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| \| Shostakovich: Symphony No 11
		First performed in 1957, the 11th is one of the richest and most powerful of Shostakovich's symphonies.
		It's also one of the most overtly political, though its actual agenda has been the cause of some controversy.
		Leopold Stokowski (Russian Disc) turned in a hair-raising live performance the same year, as a guest with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /keynotes/story/0,11111,777950,00.html (258 words)

	The Juilliard School - Press - Press Release
		MUSIC director of the Oregon Symphony James DePreist leads the Juilliard Orchestra on Thursday November 7 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall in a program of music which includes Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, Op.
		Upcoming engagements include appearances with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Quebec Symphony, and a return to the Aspen Music Festival, where he has had a long-standing association.
		No material on this site may be reproduced in part or in whole, including electronically, without the written permission of The Juilliard School.
	www.juilliard.edu /update/press/707current_releases_story.html (497 words)

	SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 11 in G minor "The Year 1905" - Russian National Orchestra/Mikhael Pletnev - Pentatone
		The 11th is a long, programmatic and atmospheric work describing the events of the First Russian Revolution of 1905, when Tsar Nicholas had his troops fire on 100,000 unarmed workers, women and children in the Palace Square of St. Petersburg.
		The symphony is in four movements: The Palace Square, The Ninth of January, In Memoriam, The Tocsin.
		A competing SACD version is that of the composer's close friend Mstislav Rostropovich, with the London Symphony orchestra on their SACD series.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=1539 (509 words)

	Shostakovich Symphony No.11
		But give credit where all the credit is due: Stokowski extracts a deeply felt performance from the Houston Symphony Orchestra that catches all the nuances of the slow passages of each movement.
		Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral"; Schoenberg: Survivor from Warsaw
		Schostakowitsch: Symphonie No. 10 in E Minor, Op.
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