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Bernstein Royal Ed - Shostakovich Sym No 14

The most unusual of Shostakovich’s symphonies is his Fourteenth, an extended song-cycle for two singers, female and male, and scored for a chamber orchestra of strings and percussion.


In this work, almost a one-act opera in its sense of drama and character, Shostakovich returned to the experimental and modernistic music language of his youth, but reappraising it from the point of view of an artist at the end of his career. At heart this symphony is a piece about art addresses death and retrospection. On the way these themes are seen and thought about from many angles and viewpoints.

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