Anniversaries for various composers come and go, but rarely does a composer’s commemoration seem as poignant as this year’s 50th anniversary of the death of Dmitri Shostakovich. And who better…
Exactly 50 years ago to the day, Semyon Bychkov fled the Soviet Union for Vienna, carrying a score - Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony in D minor, Op 47. Like Shostakovich, he…