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The only symphony you need to hear this weekend

The only symphony you need to hear this weekend

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his last symphony with left hand alone. A heart attack in 1966, followed by several falls and fractures, left him heavily disabled. His solution was to train one hand to do the work of two, and to economise on physical effort. This may explain the expanses of blank staves in some pages of his 15th symphony …

 

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