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A ShostakovichFirst Broadcast

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MAXIM SHOSTAKOVICH conducts the MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
With YEVGENIY NISTFRENKO fbaSS) in the orchestral version of the Suite on verses of Michelangelo, Op 145. by Dmitri Shostakovich Truth: Morning: Love: Separation: Anger: Dante; In Exile; Creation; Night (Dialogue); Death; Immortality (sung in Russian: first broadcast in this country)
The singer, recalling the first performance in the Philharmonic Hall, Leningrad, in the presence of the composer, said: ' The final words of the suite seemed remarkably just and hadanewring:" I live with a thousand souls in the hearts of all who love. That means I'm not ashes and will never die." '
(Soviet Radio recording of a performance given in Oct 1975)

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Dmitri Shostakovich
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