Symphony in G sharp minor - Nikolai Myaskovsky

State Academic Symphonic Orchestra of Russia conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov I - Lento - Allegro molto agitato: 0:00 II - Lento assai - Andantino ma non troppo: 15:46 III - Allegro poco vivace: 32:39 IV - Andante - Allegro molto animato: 37:52 Myaskovsky’s seventeenth symphony was composed between 1936 and 1937, premiered in December 1937, directed by Alexander Gauk, the titular conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the USSR during the period 1936-1941, to whom Myaskovsky dedicated the work . In 1936 one of the most terrible periods of the Soviet regime began, with the purges of purification. When the five-year plans were not fully met, thousands of people disappeared without a trace and anyone who was interested in them could be found in the next list. The sinister gulag, the administration of prisons rhetorically called reeducation camps for work, took millions of prisoners in Stalin’s time. Something only comparable to the Nazi terror. In the musical field, in the month of January of 1936 appears the fa