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Shostakovich  - Symphony No.11 | Naxos 8572082

Shostakovich - Symphony No.11

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8572082

Barcode: 0747313208272

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 2nd March 2009

Contents

Artists

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Vasily Petrenko

Works

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Symphony no.11 in G minor, op.103 'The Year 1905'

Artists

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Vasily Petrenko

About

Charismatic young conductor Vasily Petrenko launches his Shostakovich Symphonies series with the Eleventh, a highly charged depiction of the ‘Bloody Sunday’ massacre of over two hundred peaceful demonstrators by Czarist soldiers outside the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in 1905.

The 1905 Symphony is scored for a sizeable orchestra of triple woodwind, four horns, three each of trumpets and trombones, plus tuba, timpani, percussion, celesta, harps and strings.

The Symphony makes extensive use of revolutionary songs as thematic elements as it progresses, without pause, from the glacial opening movement (Palace Square), to the terrifying massacre and its aftermath (The Ninth of January), the funereal third movement (Eternal Memory) and the final movement (The Tocsin), which culminates with cataclysmic bell strokes.

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