Symphony#5 In D Minor, Op. 47

is a work of genius and it never lays an easy welcome in your way. I think after listening to it quite a few times in last six months, I might have just found my way in.

Shostakovich - Piano Trio. No. #2 in E minor Op. 67

There was a funny anecdote that the conductor told about Dimitry Shostakovich in his introduction to this piece last night. Shostakovich was visiting the US and he was talking to students in a music conservatory in Baltimore and someone asked him that the problem with Soviet Union schools was that people weren't allowed to compose what they wanted. Shostakovich replied back that the problem with American conservatories was that people were allowed to compose what they wanted.!!

Shostakovich's Symphony No.5

Paranormal it might seem that the moment I turned up the volume the temperature which had been on a gradual decline in this room suddenly went up.

Concert Play List

• Piano Concerto in G Minor, OP. 33 - Antonin Dvorak
• String Quartet Pieces - Dimitry Shostakovich
• Symphony No.5 and 9 - Dimitry Shostakovich (Leonard Bernstein conducting)
• String Quartet In D Minor, OP. 76 No. 2 - Joseph Haydn
• Swedish Rhapsodies - Hugo Alfven
• Rhapsodie Espagnol - Maurice Ravel