Kancheli, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich - by Marc Mandel and Robert Kirzinger, narraged by Eleanor McGourty

Summary: Listen to the Concert Preview! Continuing the BSO's survey of the Stalin-era works of Dmitri Shostakovich, Andris Nelsons leads the composer's wartime Eighth Symphony. Written only a decade earlier, Rachmaninoff's perennially popular Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, here played by the Russian virtuoso Nikolai Lugansky, is a tour de force of compositional craft.