Shostakovich - Composer and Time

People in the hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic. The music of D. Shostakovich is played. D. Shostakovich's office. Chronicle: speech by Shostakovich (sinhr.). Photos of parents, young musician, people with whom D. Shostakovich was familiar and worked, including G. M. Kozintsev, V. E. Meyerhold. Conductor G. Rozhdestvensky's speech (sinhr.). Newsreel footage from the life of the country is accompanied by fragments from the first, fifth, seventh, eighth, twelfth symphonies of D. Shostakovich, including the meeting of V. Chkalov, the epic "Chelyuskintsev", smiles A. G. Stakhanov. E. Mravinsky is conducting. Siege Leningrad. Philharmonic Hall. Performance of D. Shostakovich's 7th symphony. Conducted by Y. Temirkanov. Scenes from the opera "Katerina Izmailova". Music and fragments from the film "Counter" sound. Fragments from works by D. Shostakovich are performed by soloists: L. Kogan, D. Oistrakh, E. Nesterenko. Funeral procession in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

B&W

5

1981