蕭士塔高維契：第5號交響曲, 柴可夫斯基：羅密歐與茱麗葉 Shostakovich：Symphony No.5, Tchaikovsky：Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture

蕭士塔高維奇所有交響曲中最偉大的一首「革命」是蕭氏受到蘇聯批判後, 省思之作，具有「克服 勝利」這種貝多芬以來的精神,因此常被比擬為《命 運交響曲》 。

而另一首柴可夫斯基的《羅密歐與茱麗葉》則是取自於英國文學大師莎士比亞的悲劇作品,莎士比亞的作品ㄧ直是音樂家創作的靈感來源,其中又以《羅密歐與茱麗葉》最受青睞;柴可夫斯基將此故事以幻想序曲的曲式來現，抒情的幻想曲風,幽怨哀淒的敘說千古悲劇。 

Only available as a 2-channel Soundstream SACD recording!

This stellar Telarc recording with conductor Lorin Maazel and The Cleveland Orchestra has finally been re-released featuring Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony and Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet. All Telarc SACDs are hybrid recordings so you'll be able to enjoy them on your CD player as well.

Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony comprises four movements: Moderato, Allegretto, Largo and Allegro non troppo. To call it eclectic in forms lifted from Mozart, harmonies borrowed from Prokofiev, orchestrations recalling Tchaikovsky, rhythms reminiscent of Stravinsky, and melodies echoing Mahler is not to complain, for there is nothing wrong with eclecticism when one remembers that the greatest borrower of all was Bach. In the years before Stalin consolidated his power, when Soviet culture was still free enough to welcome such modernists as Berg, Bartok and Hidemith, the young Shostakovich had felt the variegated stimulus of the then avant garde, and to these influences, eagerly responded.

One of Tchaikovsky's earliest masterpieces Romeo & Juliet was suggested by the largely self-taught composer, Mily Balakirev, as an appropriate subject for a symphonic poem. The piece was completed on September 10, 1870 achieved its first performance in Berlin the following year, and has remained an orchestral staple worldwide ever since.

No doubt a fair part of this success is due to Balakirev, since, even though Tchaikovsky actually invented all the musical material, his mentor clearly played a major role in working out the formal structure of the piece and encouraging him to continue with improvements. And though the score certainly does not attempt to follow the plot of the play in any respect, the central moods, captured with splendid romantic passion, remain intact.