Sunday Feature: ShostakovichSeries 1, episode 0A Journey into Light. Stephen Johnson, who has been diagnosed with serious clinical depression, claims that the music of Shostakovich has helped him to survive. Yet Shostakovich is the composer of some of the darkest and most despairing music ever written. Stephen visits Moscow and St Petersburg to explore why people still relate to Shostakovich and what his music means in a country still coming to terms with its past Click to see when Sunday Feature, Shostakovich is coming up on UK TV |
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