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These are older tracks, taken from an abandoned longer album on this theme. If you want to try a Dmitri Shostakovich symphony, maybe look at numbers, 10, 7, 8, and 1.

There is also a video for the joining the party 1960 track. Here's the link youtu.be/HCxh-eu8iIo

In 1960, Dmitri Shostakovich finally joined the Soviet Communist party.
There is still some controversy regarding his decision. Commentary about his symphonies seemed to bounce around whether he was loyal to the Soviet regime, or secretly and very subtly subversive. Some have branded him a coward.
In the 70s, a book, titled Testimony was published. It's an interesting read. Ultimately, his relationship with music, and his relationship with the Soviet machine was complex, and the book doesn't always answer all the questions..
Fear can frustrate and condemn all the beautiful ideas and energies in the human soul. Fear is real. We can't forget the absolute horrors which communism, in all its forms, and all its disguises, will always force upon people.
I think of Dmitri Shostakovich as being a man with qualities, forced to create propaganda for the machinery of state, always careful regarding the whims of the cultural commissars and the mighty Stalin, and perhaps he really was the subversive musical genius we would like him to be.

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released July 14, 2023

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