Symphony no. 14

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Magdaléna Hajóssyová & Peter Mikuláš & Symfonický orchester Slovenského rozhlasu & Ladislav Slovák

Symphony No. 14 is a symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich, composed in 1969. Scored for soprano and bass soloists with a reduced chamber orchestra, it sets a sequence of poems on death and mortality in a concentrated, austere manner and represents a late-period turn in Shostakovich's output toward intimate, declamatory vocal writing and pared-down textures.

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  1. 1.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: I. De profundis
    4:49
  2. 2.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: II. Malagueña
    2:48
  3. 3.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: III. Loreley
    8:28
  4. 4.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: IV. The Suicide
    6:25
  5. 5.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: V. On the Alert
    3:03
  6. 6.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: VI. Look Here, Madame!
    1:40
  7. 7.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: VII. At The Santé Jail
    9:57
  8. 8.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: VIII. Reply of the Zaporozhye Cossacks to the Sultan of Constantinople
    2:03
  9. 9.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: IX. O Delvig, Delvig!
    4:49
  10. 10.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: X. The Poet's Death
    4:52
  11. 11.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: XI. Conclusion
    1:06

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