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The fateful Pravda article 'Muddle Instead of Music' appeared in January 1936, in which Shostakovich was directly attacked for his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, at which point the composer had comple...

In the summer of 1937 - during the dangerous time of Stalin's Great Terror - Shostakovich completed his Symphony No. 5. The Pravda article "Muddle Instead of Music" from January 1936, which condemned...

While the German Wehrmacht besieged Leningrad, Shostakovich wrote his 'Leningrad' Symphony. More than a million people died during the 28-month-long isolation of the city. Against this backdrop, Shost...

Nine months after Stalin's death on 10 December 1953, Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 was premiered as his first symphonic composition since the end of the war. It was later interpreted by Solom...

In September 1961, Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem 'Babi Yar' appeared in the Soviet Literaturnaya Gazeta, addressing the mass shooting in 1941 of more than 33,000 Jewish men, women and children on the out...

Speziell an die Vokalsolistinnen sowie Chorsänger*innen, die beide Vokalsätze von Mahlers 2. Sinfonie einüben und aufführen möchten, wendet sich der von Nicholas Kok neu erstellte Klavierauszug des 4....

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...

Nach seinem frühen Abschied von der Opernbühne im Jahre 1829 komponierte Gioachino Rossini neben Kammermusik nur noch größer besetzte Kirchenmusik. Zu dieser gehört das Stabat Mater, das in zwei Arbei...

Dal 2014, i sei poemi sinfonici del ciclo "La mia patria" di Bedrich Smetana sono stati pubblicati singolarmente in nuove edizioni Urtext curate da Hugh Macdonald. Ora tutte le sei parti di quest'oper...

'In this work I gave everything I had to give. […] What I did here I will never do again'. (Camille Saint-Saëns) Camille Saint-Saëns was justifiably proud of his Symphony No. 3 dedicated to the memory...