レコード会社 – Angel Records
録音担当 – Мелодия
マスタリング – Capitol Mastering
クレジット
Conductor – Yevgeny Mravinsky*
Liner Notes – Malcolm Rayment
Orchestra – Leningrad Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra*
Producer, Engineer – Aleksander Grosman*
レーニンを称える曲として、その政治色ゆえに、評価は低い。
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Reception
The Twelfth Symphony was well received in the Soviet Union, though more coolly than its predecessor. The Eleventh was received fairly warmly in the West due in part to its assumed allusion to the Hungarian uprising of 1956, but the Twelfth’s apparently pro-Communist subject matter led to a poor reception there.[11] The first UK performance took place at the Edinburgh Festival on 4 September 1962 with the composer present.[12] It was compared unfavourably with the Fourth Symphony, which received its first performance outside of Russia just three days later. The critical success of the Fourth juxtaposed with the critical disdain for the Twelfth led to speculation that Shostakovich’s creative powers were on the wane.[13] Western listeners became more receptive after the Cold War but the Twelfth remains among the less popular of Shostakovich’s symphonies due to its workmanlike nature.[14]
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