Symphony No.11 "The Year 1905"

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich

Symphony No. 11 "The Year 1905" is the eleventh symphony by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, composed in 1957 and premiered the same year. The symphony employs large-scale, programme-driven orchestral writing that blends late-Romantic and Soviet-era idioms to evoke the events of the 1905 Russian Revolution, using vivid orchestration, march-like rhythms and contrasting sombre passages, and it occupies a significant place in Shostakovich's middle-period output as a politically engaged work from the post-Stalin era.