BBC Philharmonic Orchestra * Shostakovich: Sym No. 2 To October: Sym No. 5 [New CD] RSDBF24 and with the Rachmaninoff International

and with the Rachmaninoff International Orchestra nearly 30 years later

Risk It All

This book and CD set is an elegant edition featuring the original poems

Makropulos Affair JW 1/10~Act III: Will you tell us your real name

'Cello Concerto'

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra * Shostakovich: Sym No. 2 To October: Sym No. 5 [New CD] RSDBF24 and with the Rachmaninoff InternationalCommissioned by the Propaganda Department of the Soviet State Music Publishing House to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, the 'Symphonic Dedication to October' eventually became Shostakovich's Second Symphony, and was first performed, in Leningrad, in 1927. It is a short, through composed work of around twenty minutes, it's structure involving four sections. It opens with a Largo meant to portray the primordial chaos from