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Much of Shostakovich’s extraordinary output was profoundly marked by politics and the judgements of censors. His monumental Fifth Symphony, one of the greatest and most powerful of twentieth-century orchestral works was, supposedly, ‘A Soviet artist’s response to just criticism’. It is now known that this popular symphony was composed as a work of defiance so subtle that no-one realised at the time.
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2 dates (10 Apr - 13 Apr)
Apr
10
Thu
7:30 pm
The Bridgewater Hall
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Apr
13
Sun
7:30 pm
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