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King Lear - film score

Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Performers: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky
Recording date: 08 March 2000
Date of broadcast: 21 April 2000

Shakespeare's brutal tragedy can be interpreted as a warning to humanity which this music, from 1940, confirms. With Stalin at his most repressive and Hitler at the border, Shostakovich's composition seems prophetic.

Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Performers: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky
Recording date: 08 March 2000
Date of broadcast: 21 April 2000

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