Symphony no. 14 / 6 Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva

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

Symphony No. 14 / Six Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva is an album of works by Dmitri Shostakovich, combining his 1969 Symphony No. 14 with a cycle of songs on Marina Tsvetaeva's poetry from the 1960s. The music exemplifies Shostakovich's late style, characterised by spare, chamber-orchestral textures, prominent vocal writing and a sombre, introspective mood that reflects his late-career focus on mortality and concentrated, often austere forms.
First released: 1986

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: I. De profundis
    4:45
  2. 2.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: II. Malagueña
    2:36
  3. 3.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: III. Lorelei
    8:34
  4. 4.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: IV. Le Suicidé
    6:46
  5. 5.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: V. Les Attentives I
    2:58
  6. 6.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: VI. Les Attentives II
    1:51
  7. 7.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: VII. À la santé
    8:46
  8. 8.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: VIII. Réponse des cosaques zaporogues au sultan
    2:02
  9. 9.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: IX. O Delvig, Delvig!
    4:46
  10. 10.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: X. Der Tod des Dichters
    5:26
  11. 11.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: XI. Schluß-Stück
    1:27
  12. 12.
    6 Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, op. 143a: I. My Poems
    3:26
  13. 13.
    6 Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, op. 143a: II. Such tenderness
    3:52
  14. 14.
    6 Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, op. 143a: III. Hamlet’s Dialogue with his Conscience
    3:23
  15. 15.
    6 Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, op. 143a: IV. The Poet and the Tsar
    1:39
  16. 16.
    6 Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, op. 143a: V. No, the Drum Beat
    3:28
  17. 17.
    6 Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, op. 143a: VI. To Anna Akhmatova
    6:09

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