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Composer of the Week: Shostakovich

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The Early Years
In this week's programmes, Gerard McBurney travels to St Petersburg where Dmitri Shostakovich spent his early years.
2: Thumbing His Nose
The Bedbug (excerpts)
USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gennadi
Rozhdestvensky
Songs to Japanese Texts (excerpts) llya Levinsky (tenor),
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Film music: Alone (excerpts)
German Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Jurovsky The Nose (excerpts)
Soloists, Moscow Musical Theatre
Chamber Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Tahiti Trot
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly Repeated next Tuesday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerard McBurney
Unknown:
Dmitri Shostakovich
Conductor:
Mikhail Jurovsky
Conductor:
Riccardo Chailly
Source: Radio Times

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