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Few works capture the tension between freedom and fate as profoundly as Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony . Premiered under political surveillance and in the shadow of a real threat, the score has been interpreted for decades as a public statement, a veiled confession, a mask or an act of resistance. Its seemingly triumphant finale keeps on posing an unsettling question: does it celebrate victory, or does it reveal the cost of pretending to do so?
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