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National Youth Orchestra GB Rise Up

  • NYO GB Coventry, England, CV4 7AL United Kingdom (map)

Shostakovich’s symphonic memorial divided opinion, his detractors accusing him of toeing a party line in commemorating the 1905 massacre outside the Tsar’s Winter Palace. But shift the focus of his symphony to Hungary in 1956, and this dramatic piece becomes a powerful commentary on the brutal Soviet suppression of another uprising, as well as a rallying call for continued defiance

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