Symphony no. 11 "The Year 1905"

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Radio Filharmonisch Orkest & Mark Wigglesworth

Symphony No. 11, subtitled The Year 1905, is a symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich composed in 1957. The work is programme-like, scored for large orchestra and characterised by vivid orchestration, episodic structures and a blend of march-like, lamenting and atmospheric passages that evoke the events of 1905, placing it within Shostakovich's late-1950s shift towards explicitly historical and narrative symphonic writing.
First released: 27th February 2010

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphony no. 11 "The Year 1905": I. The Palace Square
    16:27
  2. 2.
    Symphony no. 11 "The Year 1905": II. The Ninth of January
    19:49
  3. 3.
    Symphony no. 11 "The Year 1905": III. In memoriam
    12:18
  4. 4.
    Symphony no. 11 "The Year 1905": IV. The Tocsin
    15:06

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