Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti is a cycle of song settings by Dmitri Shostakovich of eleven poems by Michelangelo Buonarroti, translated into the Russian language by Avram Efros. The original version (Op.145) is for bass voice and piano; the composer also produced an orchestrated version (145a).