Symphony no. 14, op. 135

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & I Musici de Montréal & Yuli Turovsky & Elizabeth Holleque & Nikita Leonidovich Storojev

Symphony No. 14, Op. 135 is the fourteenth symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich, composed in 1969. Scored for two vocal soloists and a chamber ensemble, it sets a sequence of poems about mortality and employs concise, aphoristic movements with sparse, often bleak textures that blend tonal fragments and dissonance as part of Shostakovich's late-period explorations of form and expression.
First released: 1988

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: I. De profundis
    4:47
  2. 2.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: II. Malagueña
    2:57
  3. 3.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: III. Loreley
    9:01
  4. 4.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: IV. The Suicide
    7:14
  5. 5.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: V. On Watch
    3:02
  6. 6.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: VI. Madam, Look!
    1:59
  7. 7.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: VII. In the Santé Jail
    9:36
  8. 8.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: VIII. Reply of the Zaporozhye Cossacks to the Sultan of Constantinople
    2:15
  9. 9.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: IX. O Delvig, Delvig!
    4:30
  10. 10.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: X. Death of the Poet
    5:31
  11. 11.
    Symphony no. 14, op. 135: XI. Conclusion
    1:17

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