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The importance of Shostakovich's music means that it features regularly in CD Review's Building a Library feature. This page presents a sequence of Building a Library Bach features dating back to ...

Shostakovich is admitted to the Petrograd Conservatory. He studies piano with Leonid Nikolayev and composition with Maximilian Shteynberg. He also works with Glazunov. He writes his Opus 1.

Nevertheless, while Prokofiev and Stravinsky had grown up under the Tsars, Shostakovich was the first and arguably the greatest composer to emerge from Communism. His first music lessons (on the piano ...

Two of Richard Strauss’s late 19th-century gems, "Don Juan" and "Till Eulenspielgel’s Merry Pranks" were paraded with party ...

The music’s many moods were reflected in his ... begin the second movement until silence prevailed. The two Shostakovich piano concertos are among the best of the 20th Century, full of ...