Name: Shostakovich: Three Last Works
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you can hear the wonderful chamber sound of this late symphony where Shostakovich reinvents himself … a very decent recording. — CD Review, 9th July 2016

Release Date: 5th Aug 2016
Catalogue No: PRD250334
Label: Praga
Series: Digitals

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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141

live, Prague 29/11/1979
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Eduard Serov

Shostakovich: Suite on verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti, for bass & orchestra, Op. 145a

live, Prague May 1980
Sergei Kopcak (bass)
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
František Vajnar

Shostakovich: Novorosiisk Chimes, Op. 111b

Novorossiisk, 27/9/1960
Radio-TV USSR Symphony
Arvid Jansons

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Ever the humorist, Shostakovich delighted in placing references to his works and of other composers in his final, Fifteenth Symphony: in addition to the cryptic references to his own music, it includes an outburst of Rossini's 'William Tell' Overture in the first movement; allusions to Mikhail Glinka and Gustav Mahler; and the use of Richard Wagner's 'Fate' leitmotif from the Ring Cycle.

There is little humour however in the orchestral version of the 'Michelangelo Suite': a cycle profoundly personal and deeply felt.

'Novorossiisk Chimes' (also known as The Flame of Eternal Glory or The Fire of Eternal Glory), Op. 111b, was written in 1960 for the war memorial in the city of Novorossiisk. The piece consists, mainly, of material Shostakovich had originally written in 1943 as an entry in a contest to compose a new national anthem for the USSR. The opening phrases have also been used as introductory music for Moscow Radio's late-night news program CKACWH.

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CD Review 9th July 2016

you can hear the wonderful chamber sound of this late symphony where Shostakovich reinvents himself … a very decent recording.

Shostakovich: Three Last Works

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