From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
… He composed 24 Preludes and Fugues – in Bach’s footsteps – and gave them to Nikolaeva to perform in Leningrad in December 1952. Soviet critics complained of a lack of ‘socialist content’. Western critics ignored the set….
Continues here.
En francais ici.
In Czech here.
In The Critic.
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