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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 (excerpt)
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, led by Manfred Honeck, returned to Carnegie Hall for the first time in more than a decade with a program that featured Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5!
The New York Times hailed the performance as "an unsparing demonstration of how orchestral sophistication of the highest order can be put to profound aesthetic ends," illuminating a work widely seen as a comeback moment for the composer after its 1937 premiere by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra.
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