Symphonies no. 12 "The Year of 1917" & no. 15

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Aleksandr Lazarev & 日本フィルハーモニー交響楽団

Symphonies No. 12 "The Year of 1917" and No. 15 are orchestral works by Dmitri Shostakovich, composed in 1961 and 1971 respectively. Musically they exhibit Shostakovich's late orchestral language, with No. 12 drawing on march-like, programmatic material associated with revolutionary themes and No. 15 offering a more introspective, often enigmatic texture combining sombre slow movements with scherzo-like passages, together representing late-career reflections on history and personal memory.

First released: 2019

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Symphony no. 12 in D minor, op. 112, “The Year of 1917”: I. Revolutionary Petrograd. Moderato —
12:21
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Symphony no. 12 in D minor, op. 112, “The Year of 1917”: II. Razliv. Adagio —
10:39
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Symphony no. 12 in D minor, op. 112, “The Year of 1917”: III. Aurora. Allegro —
4:26
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Symphony no. 12 in D minor, op. 112, “The Year of 1917”: IV. The Dawn of Humanity. L’istesso tempo
10:26
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Symphony no. 15 in A major, op. 141: I. Allegretto
8:00
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Symphony no. 15 in A major, op. 141: II. Adagio - Largo - Adagio - Largo
15:27
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Symphony no. 15 in A major, op. 141: III. Allegretto
4:24
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Symphony no. 15 in A major, op. 141: IV. Adagio - Allegretto - Adagio - Allegretto
16:29