Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Sarah Traubel, Roman Lyulkin
AP389 - 1CD - 51' - May 30, 2025
This album features Chostakovitch’s Fourteenth Symphony, dedicated to Benjamin Britten. With eleven movements for voice, string orchestra, and percussion, it explores death through poems in multiple languages, offering a raw and direct reflection on the theme.
The Fourteenth Symphony was Shostakovich’s penultimate work. Dedicated to Benjamin Britten, it stands out from all the others by its unique form: its eleven movements, scored for soprano, bass, string orchestra and percussion, are structured around as many poems, sung in French, Russian, German and Spanish. They all evoke death in one way or another, responding to Shostakovich's obsession with facing it head-on, coming to terms with it and accustom himself to it.
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Symphony no. 14 in G minor op. 135
1. De profundis (Adagio)
2. Malagueña (Allegretto)
3. Loreley (Allegro molto)
4. Le suicidé (Adagio)
5. Les attentives I (Allegretto)
6. Les attentives II (Adagio)
7. À la santé (Allegretto)
8. Réponse des cosaques zaporogues au sultan de Constantinople (Allegro)
9. O Delvig, Delvig! (Adagio)
10. Der Tod des Dichters (Largo)
11. Schlußstück (Moderato)
