In this installment in 'an ongoing Shostakovich survey that has rightly won him three Grammy Awards' (New York Times), Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra bookend the composer's brilliant, often turbulent symphonic career. Nearly half a century lies between Shostakovich's triumphant debut with the 'First', premiered before his 20th birthday, and the 'Fifteenth', an inventory of influences written under the shadow of his own mortality. Penned just two years earlier, the 'Fourteenth' is a symphonic song cycle, and the Chamber Symphony is a skillful adaptation of that tragic masterpiece, the Eighth String Quartet.

CD 1:

1. I. Allegretto - Allegro Non Troppo

2. II. Allegro

3. III. Lento

4. IV. Lento - Allegro Molto

5. I. Allegretto

6. II. Adagio - Largo - Adagio - Largo

7. III. Allegretto

8. IV. Adagio - Allegretto - Adagio - Allegretto

CD 2:

1. De Profundis

2. Malagueña

3. Loreley

4. Le Suicidé

5. Les Attentives I

6. Les Attentives II

7. A La Santé

8. Réponse Des Cosaques Zaporogues Au Sultan De Constantinople

9. O, Delvig, Delvig!

10. Der Tod Des Dichters

11. Schlussstück

12. I. Largo

13. II. Allegro Molto

14. III. Allegretto