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2018-03-12 09:31:00
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.14 in G minor – Julia Korpacheva, Peter Migunov, MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis (Download 44.1kHz/16bit)
[…] work and, viewed from a certain angle, his Fourteenth Symphony, which is dedicated to Britten, may be seen as a polemical response to the vision of human existence developed by the English composer in the War Requiem. (For further explanation of this, see below.)Another work to which Shostakovich cannot have been indifferent was Witold Lutoslawski's Paroles tissées – Woven words – for tenor and chamber orchestra (1965), to a text by the French poet Jean-François Chabrun. Apart from the theme of death (which Chabrun treats in a surrealist manner calling to mind the poems of Garcia Lorca), the choice of instruments is similar to that of Shostakovich's Symphony. Both works are scored for strings and percussion (with seventeen string instruments for Lutosławski, nineteen for Shostakovich).The third work that Shostakovich may have known is Krzysztof Penderecki's oratorio Dies irae (1967), which would have attracted his attention by its use of an […]
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