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Formats and Editions
1. Symphony No. 4 In C Minor, Op. 43: I. Allegretto Poco Moderato - Presto
2. Symphony No. 4 In C Minor, Op. 43: II. Moderato Con Moto
3. Symphony No. 4 In C Minor, Op. 43: III. Largo - Allegro
4. Bring It On
5. Full Throttle
6. 30-30 Lover Action
7. Ranch Hand Diva (Congress Queen)
8. Why Buy The Cow
9. These Are Some Times
10. Get On Down The Road
More Info:
Completed in 1936 but withdrawn during rehearsal and not performed until 1961, the searing Fourth Symphony finds Shostakovich stretching his musical idiom to the limit in the search for a personal means of expression at a time of undoubted personal and professional crisis. The opening movement, a complex and unpredictable take on sonata form that teems with a dazzling profusion of varied motifs, is followed by a short, eerie central movement. The finale opens with a funeral march leading to a climax of seismic physical force that gives way to a bleak and harrowing minor key coda. The Symphony has since become one of the most highly regarded of the composer's large-scale works.
