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A lighter touch in Shostakovich

A lighter touch in Shostakovich

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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