Shostakovich: Symphony no. 10 in E minor

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra & Paavo Järvi

Symphony No. 10 in E minor is the tenth symphony by Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich, completed and first performed in 1953. The four-movement orchestral work juxtaposes driving, march-like passages and brooding slow movements with sharp brass and percussion gestures, and is frequently interpreted as a musical response to Stalin's death that indicates a shift in Shostakovich's postwar compositional language.