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Composer of the Week Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975) Episodes

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  1. The Two Shostakoviches

    5/5 Donald Macleod focuses on Shostakovich's String Quartet No 15.

  2. Looking Death in the Face

    4/5 Donald Macleod discusses the composition of Shostakovich's unsettling String Quartet No 14

  3. The Unwilling Communist

    3/5 Donald Macleod explores Shostakovich's String Quartets No 7 and 8.

  4. Music for the Bottom Drawer

    2/5 Music for two pianos, a work in praise of Stalin and a quartet so subversive it was banned

  5. Turning Inward

    1/5 How Shostakovich withdrew from public art to the inward sphere of the quartet.