From Yiddish Folk Poetry

An extraordinary friendship connected Dmitri Shostakovich and his Jewish colleague Mieczysław Weinberg, who came from Poland and fled to Minsk in 1939 and later lived in Moscow. They both suffered repression and threats - and at the same time had to find a way to defy the Soviet cultural ideology with their music and to survive. As was the case then, their works in this program also enter into a subtle dialogue with one another, characterized by ...