
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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Shostakovich's Happy Movement
A highly successful but censored composer. A man who was married three times but never saw himself as attractive to women. And a man who lived in a society where freedom of thought was simply not an option. Performing Shostakovich symphonies is absolutely exhausting, physically, mentally and emotionally. It leads us directly into the fourth movement of the symphony. The happy movement. Cheers how it begins.
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