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A bad day for Shostakovich

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A bad day for Shostakovich

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

When the British prime minister Sir Keir Starmer said this week that he listened to Shostakovich if he was having a hard time, I wondered if he’d been tuned in to the same set as me. There are many things in life that make me reach for Shostakovich and I am rarely let down by performance — certainly never as exasperated as I was by these.

The good things first. …

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pictured: DSCH with Walt Disney

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