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Festive Overture

Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Performers: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier
Recording date: 14 February 1998
Date of broadcast: 14 October 1998

Blazing brass fanfares, and a pulsating tune, this is Shostakovich with the shackles off, showing us his lighter side. Written a year after Stalin鈥檚 death it combines the grandeur of a state occasion with the carefree attitude of youth. The overture was used in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Performers: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier
Recording date: 14 February 1998
Date of broadcast: 14 October 1998

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