Symphony no. 8
Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Andrey Boreyko & Radio‐Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Symphony No. 8 is the eighth symphony by Dmitry Shostakovich, composed in 1943. The four-movement work is expansive and sombre, employing late-Romantic orchestration, stark dissonances and bleak, march-like motifs to convey wartime struggle, and it represents a shift in Shostakovich's mid-war output toward a more introspective and tragic expressive approach.
First released: May 2017

Tracklist
- 1.Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65: I. Adagio – Poco più mosso – Adagio – Allegro non troppo – Allegro – Adagio – Poco più mosso – A tempo ma tranquillo28:29
- 2.Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65: II. Allegretto – più mosso – Tempo primo – Più mosso6:50
- 3.Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65: III. Allegro non troppo, marcatissimo – attacca:6:42
- 4.Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65: IV. Largo – attacca:10:03
- 5.Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65: V. Allegretto – Più mosso – Animando – Allegro – Ancora più animando – Adagio – Allegretto – Andante13:50