Shostakovich Plays Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich began his career with hopes of becoming a professional pianist, and throughout his life he maintained a close association with the instrument. He enjoyed playing in private and in public, and recorded some of his own compositions in the 1940s and 1950s. Highlights of this program, which features some of his most ebullient and personal works, include the two Piano Concertos and a selection of the Preludes and Fugues, Op.87.

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