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Vladimir Ashkenazy is both soloist and conductor in a performance of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto this Sunday. Then we check in on Dmitri Shostakovich as he continues in his symphonic cavalcade of 20th-century world events.

After decades of working under the Soviet thumb, Dmitri Shostakovich finally vented his own frustration and rage in his 13th Symphony, a musical setting of the already suppressed poetry of Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

As we conclude our series of the 15 Shostakovich symphonies this Sunday, we also look in on four of his contemporaries to see how they dealt with the state of music in the Soviet Union.

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