Twenty Minutes

In From The Cold

Friday 10 September 2004 20:30-20:50 (Radio 3)

Jim Riordan reflects on the classic Music for Pleasure recording (featuring a vast red poppy on the sleeve) of Shostakovich's Fifth - a Soviet symphony interpreted by Czech maestros - that for many came to represent the ideological struggle of the late sixties.

Duration:

20 minutes

Twenty Minutes

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