Nikolai Myaskovsky's Symphony No.
It is dedicated to Yuri Shaporin.
[1][2] The symphony was premiered on 28 November 1940 by Nikolai Golovanov conducting the Large All-Union Radio SO.
The Adagio is on two themes, in C and in A♭, which appear contrapuntally at the reappearance of the first; it has the form A-B (l'Istesso tempo, Andantino)-A'-B'-coda.
[3] The finale is a rondo whose E major concluding pages incorporate a climactic reappearance by the main theme of the Adagio, leading Richard Taruskin to remark of this symphony that it is Myaskovsky's "Land of Hope and Glory".