Symphonie Nr. 10

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Rundfunk‐Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken & Günther Herbig

Symphony No. 10 is the tenth symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich, composed in 1953. The four-movement orchestral work combines stark dissonances, brooding slow movements, sardonic march-like episodes and expansive lyricism, employing abrupt contrasts, piercing brass and dense string writing to evoke a tense post-war atmosphere and is widely interpreted as a response to the political climate surrounding Stalin's death, marking an important point in Shostakovich's post-war output.