It was 100 years ago that Dmitri Shostakovich, as a young music student at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, completed his First Symphony. He finished the work in April 1925, and did not turn 19 years ...
How a holocaust massacre in Ukraine and an unflinching poem inspired one of the greatest choral works of the 20th century – Shostakovich’s 'Babi Yar' Symphony. Show more Dmitri Shostakovich’s ...