Symphony no. 11 "The Year 1905"

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi & Oleg Caetani

Symphony No. 11 'The Year 1905' is the eleventh symphony by Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich, completed and premiered in 1957. The work is a large-scale orchestral symphony characterised by vivid, often documentary orchestration, late-Romantic harmonic language and a mixture of march-like and elegiac textures, and it occupies a central place in Shostakovich's middle period as a programme-driven, politically engaged composition reflecting on events from early 20th-century Russian history.