Symphony no. 11 "The Year 1905"

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Vasily Petrenko

Symphony No. 11, 'The Year 1905', is the eleventh symphony by Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich, completed in 1957. The score employs large-scale orchestral forces and a largely tonal, programme-like structure with march motifs, sombre brass writing and vivid orchestral tableaux that evoke the 1905 uprising, and it is an example of Shostakovich's mid-career engagement with publicly oriented, politically charged symphonic writing.
First released: 31st March 2009

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphony no. 11 in G minor, op. 103 "The Year 1905": I. Palace Square: Adagio attacca
    13:43
  2. 2.
    Symphony no. 11 in G minor, op. 103 "The Year 1905": II. The Ninth of January: Allegro - Adagio - Allegro - Allegro attacca
    18:17
  3. 3.
    Symphony no. 11 in G minor, op. 103 "The Year 1905": III. Eternal Memory: Adagio attacca
    11:10
  4. 4.
    Symphony no. 11 in G minor, op. 103 "The Year 1905": IV. The Tocsin: Allegro non troppo - Allegro - Moderato - Adagio - Allegro
    14:23

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