Frankfurt Radio Symphony * Shostakovich: Syms Nos. 4 & 5 - Complete Syms V. 1 [New CD] Electronic That's two albums as an

That's two albums as an eight-year cycle

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Born Paul Frankenburger in Munich he studied composition with Friedrich Klose and served as an assistant conductor to both Bruno Walter and Hans Knappertsbusch

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Frankfurt Radio Symphony * Shostakovich: Syms Nos. 4 & 5 - Complete Syms V. 1 [New CD] Electronic That's two albums as anAlain Altinoglu and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra have begun to record the complete symphonies of Shostakovich, starting with his Fourth and Fifth symphonies. Shostakovich dared to express human suffering, passion, fear and catastrophe in his music, but always asking the same nagging question: what is man? In this sense, these two symphonies open with a question an idea of martyrdom that was to become one of the central ideas of his later