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Composer of the Week: Shostakovich

BBC Radio 3
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Stalin's purges of the 1930s brought unimaginable levels of terrorto the people of Soviet Russia. Artists and musicians were particularly vulnerable targets of the tyranny. Today Donald Macleod traces
Shostakovich's turbulent relationship with the Soviet authorities during the 1930s and 1940s.
Symphony No 5 (1st mvt)
Oslo PO, conductor Mariss Jansons Song of the Forests, Op 81 (excerpt) Gennadi Bezzubenko (baritone), St
Petersburg PO, conductor Yuri Temirkanov Symphony No 10
Berlin PO. conductor Herbert von Karajan

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Conductor:
Mariss Jansons
Conductor:
Yuri Temirkanov
Source: Radio Times

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