Circa and Debussy String Quartet; Paul Bunyan " review by Fiona Maddocks

Barbican theatre; Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, LondonA string quartet and a circus group take Shostakovich to astonishing new heightsPhotographs of Dmitri Shostakovich invariably show a face of gloom. Yet Soviet Russia's greatest composer had a wild side. He possessed a sharp ear for torch songs and jazz. He spun circus tunes into his scores. He was capable of dancing on pianos. He certainly couldn't, however, …

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