Symphony no. 14

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest & Bernard Haitink & Júlia Várady & Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau

Symphony No. 14 is the fourteenth symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich, composed and first performed in 1969. Scored for soprano, bass and chamber orchestra, it unfolds as a song cycle setting poems on the theme of death and represents a concentrated late-period turn to chamber forces and stark, aphoristic expression in his output.
First released: 1981

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: I. De Profundis
    4:44
  2. 2.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: II. Malagueña
    2:39
  3. 3.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: III. Loreley
    8:35
  4. 4.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: IV. Le Suicide
    6:42
  5. 5.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: V. Les Attentives I
    3:00
  6. 6.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: VI. Les Attentives II
    1:52
  7. 7.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: VII. A la Santé
    8:46
  8. 8.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: VIII. Reponse des cosaques Zaporogues au Sultan de Constantinople
    2:04
  9. 9.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: IX. O Delvig!
    4:45
  10. 10.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: X. Der Tod des Dichters
    5:28
  11. 11.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: XI. Schluss-Stück
    1:14

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