Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff - by Marc Mandel and Robert Kirzinger, narrated by Eleanor McGourty

Summary: Listen to the Concert Preview! For the first concerts of the BSO's 2015-2016 season-an all-Russian program-Andris Nelsons and the orchestra continue their survey of Stalin-era works by Dmitri Shostakovich. Composed at the end of World War II, the atypically short, five-movement Ninth Symphony was criticized as being insufficiently serious for the time.