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Composer of the Week: Shostakovich

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Today Donald Macleod discusses
Shostakovich's work during the Great Patriotic War.
Symphony No 7 (Leningrad) (2nd mvt) Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
String Quartet No 2, Op 68 Borodin Quartet
Lullaby (Jewish Folk Poetry, Op 79) Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto),
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
See also BBC Proms 2OOOtonight 7.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Contralto:
Nathalie Stutzmann
Source: Radio Times

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