Shostakovich Symphony No4 - A Personal View
 

The Symphony number 4 of Dmitri Shostakovich is the greatest artistic achievement of the human race. It's a personal view. This is music that communicates some very hard truths about human beings, their society, the way they organise their lives and the threats they issue. It also reminds us how trapped we might be in a mechanical universe of our own making and conception, perhaps in that order. It owes much to Tchaikovsky's Pathetique, but takes a long time to reveal its association.

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