Symphonies No. 5 & 9' [SACD] { } ~54. 00. 00 88408 Gergiev'Shostakovich:

Of Bernard Pares, distinguished founder of London UniversityБЂ™s School of Slavonic and East European Studies, it was decided that he couldnБЂ™t БЂdo much harm on Peter the Great etcБЂ™.1 Mass starvation in Leningrad БЂ” beyond the occasional observation that the city was БЂin a bad way for foodБЂ™ БЂ” was not mentioned at all. Stressed instead were the cityБЂ™s cultural losses (Inber wrote a moralising article, for foreign consumption, about shell damage to a bust of Roentgen, inventor of the X-ray) and its stout defence. A Professor Ogorodnikov broadcast fraternal greetings БЂ” БЂwearing an infantrymanБЂ™s greatcoat, with a rifle in my handsБЂ™ БЂ” to the Astronomer Royal.2 A proposal that the BBC broadcast its own Russian-language programmes direct to the Soviet Union got nowhere: when the suggestion was put to Maisky, according to Anthony Eden, the Soviet ambassador БЂshied like a young coltБЂ™.3 In early 1942 news arrived of something that promised brilliantly to transcend all these difficulties БЂ” a new symphony, written in besieged Leningrad, by Dmitri Shostakovich ...»