Gustav Mahler/Dmitri Shostakovich

Release Year: 2007

Label: ECM

Performers

Gidon Kremer

Kremerata Baltica

Yulia Korpacheva

Fedor Kuznetsov

Tracks

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Symphony No. 10 – Adagio
(1910) adapted for strings by Hans Stadlmair and Kremerata Baltica

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Symphony No. 14 op. 135 (1969) for soprano, bass and chamber orchestra
Dedicated to Benjamin Britten

I. De profundis
II. Malagueña
III. Loreley
IV. The Suicide
V. On the Alert
VI. Look, Madame
VII. At the Santé Jail
VIII. The Zaporozhian Cossacks’ Reply to the Sultan of Constantinople
IX. O Delvig, Delvig!
X. The Death of the Poet
XI. Conclusion

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Reviews and impressions

This is an extremely dramatic and atmospheric performance of the Shostakovich 14th Symphony. – Classical Music

The music on this disc is about as far from background listening as one can get. It requires us to face the finitude of our mortality, to look closely into its eyes and see ourselves reflected, craning our necks across the gap of time into the infinity that awaits. – ECM Reviews

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