Symphonie no. 14

Symphony No. 14 is the fourteenth symphony by Dimitri Chostakovitch, completed in 1969. Scored for soprano, bass and chamber orchestra, the work is an austere, declamatory setting of poems on mortality that employs spare, often stark textures and a sombre, introspective mood, marking a late and experimental phase in the composer's output that emphasises chamber-like sonorities over traditional symphonic development.