Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich)
The 11th Symphony in G minor, Op 103 by Dmitri Shostakovich is a symphony in four movements. It is subtitled The Year 1905.
Work history
Shostakovich presented his eleventh Symphony on October 30, 1957 before the Soviet audience. It did the State Symphony Orchestra of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Natan Rachlin.
Four years after the death of Stalin, it was the second symphony, which took a critical look at the history of Russia. The symphony sets the "Petersburg Bloody Sunday " a monument. It should be noted that it was not a Cossack attack on the musical description of the events on the Palace Square, but a massacre of the palace guard at demonstrating workers.
Design and analysis
The work is divided into four sets, echoing the structure of a "classical" symphony, although there is no " Scherzo " in the original sense; Moreover, the sentences that are " slow / fast / slow / fast " set, attacca merge into each other so as not to interrupt the story being told.
The first sentence describes the tense atmosphere on the cold Schlossplatz ("long chords ", " soft melody " ), the motifs of folk songs represent the people, their feelings and expectations dar. In the second sentence of the attack of the Cossacks is described ( " Streicherfuge ", " brass, percussion work" ), at the end of the sentence is taken the theme of the first movement - the calm after the storm. The grief over the sacrifice is made in the third set with the workers' song used " Immortal victim" expressed. The fourth movement is a look into the future and bring the hope of political change expressed.
All rates quoted repeatedly motives of Russian folk songs.
No. 1 ( F minor ) | No. 2 ( B major ) | No. 3 ( E flat major ) | No. 4 ( C minor ) | No. 5 ( D minor ) | No. 6 ( h minor) | No. 7 ( C major ) | No. 8 ( C minor ) | No. 9 ( e flat major ) | No. 10 ( e minor ) | 11 ( g minor ) | No. : 12 ( D minor ) | # 13 ( B flat minor ) | 14 ( g minor ) | # 15 (A major)
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