J.S. Bach, Berg and Shostakovich - by Robert Kirzinger and Richard Dyer, narrated by Eleanor McGourty

Summary: Listen to the Concert Preview! Andris Nelsons leads this intriguing program of seemingly disconnected works. Two of the most important works of the 20th century, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 and Alban Berg's Violin Concerto were composed within two years of one another. Shostakovich's symphony, which follows a trajectory from darkness to triumph, has long been considered his reaction to official condemnation of his music by the Soviet government, but the reality is far subtler than that.