Symphony no. 8
Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Государственный cимфонический оркестр Министерства культуры СССР & Gennadi Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky
Symphony No. 8 is the eighth symphony by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, composed in 1943. The four-movement orchestral work is sombre and often turbulent, employing dense orchestration, chromatic harmony and stark dynamic contrasts rooted in late-Romantic and modernist traditions, and it appears within Shostakovich's wartime output as an extended, introspective exploration of the era's musical and emotional tensions.
First released: 1998
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- 1.Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65: I. Adagio - Allegro non troppo24:54
- 2.Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65: II. Allegretto6:39
- 3.Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65: III. Allegro non troppo6:48
- 4.Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65: IV. Largo10:28
- 5.Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65: V. Allegretto14:01
