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. 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 tranquillo
    28:29
  2. 2.
    Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65: II. Allegretto – più mosso – Tempo primo – Più mosso
    6:50
  3. 3.
    Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65: III. Allegro non troppo, marcatissimo – attacca:
    6:42
  4. 4.
    Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65: IV. Largo – attacca:
    10:03
  5. 5.
    Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65: V. Allegretto – Più mosso – Animando – Allegro – Ancora più animando – Adagio – Allegretto – Andante
    13:50

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