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The American premiere, in July 1942, was by the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini, broadcast on radio by NBC and preserved on transcription discs; RCA issued the recording on LP in 1967 and later reissued it on CD. The symphony was played 62 times in the United States in the 1942–43 season.
The first American press report of the Symphony No. 7 emerged from the Romanul American on January 3, 1942, a Romanian-language newspaper, which stated that Shostakovich had recently composed a symphony "dedicated to the defenders of Leningrad"; [32] on January 24, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch mentioned it in an article about the siege. [33]
The world première of the symphony was held on 5 March 1942, in Kuybyshev with the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. The Leningrad première was performed by the surviving musicians of the Leningrad Radio Orchestra, supplemented with military performers, with Karl Eliasberg conducting. Most of the musicians were suffering from starvation, which made ...
Mravinsky made studio recordings from 1938 to 1961, including recording the symphonies of Tchaikovsky for Deutsche Grammophon, first in monaural sound in Vienna, then stereo remakes in London. His issued recordings post-1961 were taken from live concerts. His final recording was of an April 1984 live performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 12.
It made few tours to the West, and the first tour was to Finland in the spring of 1946. The orchestra and Mravinsky made a number of studio recordings, [1] and various archival live recordings have since subsequently been commercially released. [2] [3] Under Mravinsky's direction, the orchestra premiered seven of Shostakovich's symphonies.
However, on August 9, when Hitler planned to seize Leningrad, people heard the Symphony live. [4] This film is a depiction of the events leading up to the day of the historic performance, which was broadcast nationwide all over the Soviet Union on radio, and led up to the smash success of the work at home and abroad.
Possibly for its very clear exposition of the idea of "ultimate victory through strife", the Fifth was very popular during World War II, with many new recordings of the work, and many performances during those years. One of the most notable performances was by the Leningrad Radio Orchestra during the Siege of Leningrad. City leaders had ordered ...
Record company Year of recording Format Boston Symphony Orchestra: Serge Koussevitzky – 1944 (first live recording) Private issue [11] Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra: Yevgeny Mravinsky: Melodiya: 1947 (first studio recording) LP Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra Yevgeny Mravinsky BBC Worldwide: 1960 (British premiere) CD (released 1998)