Das kürzeste und wütendste Scherzo, das Dimitrij Schostakowitsch je geschrieben hat - "ein musikalisches Porträt von Stalin" nannte der Komponist selber den zweiten Satz seiner 10. Sinfonie. Aus unserem Archiv gibt es hier für Sie die ganze 10. Sinfonie unter der Leitung von Semyon Bychkov: https://youtu.be/CftCpQf8vXo | WDR Sinfonieorchester

65 years ago today, on 21 Dec 1949, Mao Zedong was in Moscow for the celebration of Josef Stalin's 70th birthday, an event which was presented in the Soviet media as enormously important. This was Mao's first visit to Moscow after the establishment of the People's Republic of China. At the birthday celebrations, Mao was seated at the right hand of Stalin, but he was said to have returned to China fuming, because he only had a brief meeting with Stalin and was for the most part treated only as on

[REPLAY] At the magnificent Dvořák Hall, world-renowned maestro Semyon Bychkov conducts the Česká filharmonie in an unmissable program of featuring Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8. The second of his three “War Symphonies,” and deemed his “most tragic work” by friend Isaac Glikman, the “Stalingrad” Symphony paints a harrowing picture of the suffering endured by those living under Stalin’s totalitarian regime during the Second World War. Watch the concert available in full on medici.tv. https://bit.