Piano Quintet / Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Trio Wanderer & Christophe Gaugué & Catherine Montier & Ekaterina Sementchuk

Piano Quintet / Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok is an album of works by Dmitri Shostakovich, presenting his Piano Quintet from 1940 alongside his Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok from 1967. The programme pairs Shostakovich's neoclassical, chamber-oriented textures and contrapuntal clarity in the Piano Quintet with the later vocal cycle's sparser, more introspective settings of Alexander Blok's poetry, illustrating the composer's movement towards economy of gesture and heightened lyricism in his later output.

Piano Quintet / Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok by Shostakovich - album cover

First released: 28th August 2020

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1.
Piano Quintet in G minor, op. 57: I. Prélude. Lento
4:14
2.
Piano Quintet in G minor, op. 57: II. Fugue. Adagio
10:12
3.
Piano Quintet in G minor, op. 57: III. Scherzo. Allegretto
3:21
4.
Piano Quintet in G minor, op. 57: IV. Intermezzo. Lento
6:39
5.
Piano Quintet in G minor, op. 57: V. Finale. Allegretto
7:08
6.
Seven Romances on Poems by Alexandr Blok, op. 127: 1. Ophelia’s Song
2:52
7.
Seven Romances on Poems by Alexandr Blok, op. 127: 2. Gamayun, the Prophet Bird
3:41
8.
Seven Romances on Poems by Alexandr Blok, op. 127: 3. We Were Together
3:00
9.
Seven Romances on Poems by Alexandr Blok, op. 127: 4. The Town Sleeps
3:01
10.
Seven Romances on Poems by Alexandr Blok, op. 127: 5. The Storm
2:06
11.
Seven Romances on Poems by Alexandr Blok, op. 127: 6. Secret signs
4:31
12.
Seven Romances on Poems by Alexandr Blok, op. 127: 7. Music
5:50