Two Fifths: two symphonic triumphs. Beethoven’s Fifth represents the human capacity for heroism in the face of adversity—or, as he put it, “through suffering to joy.” Shostakovich’s Fifth was a huge hit, and kept him alive and out of the Gulag, but it's too slippery and ambivalent to function as triumphalist propaganda.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5
Performers
Jap van Zweden
Conductor
San Francisco Symphony