Here we see a postage stamp depicting Shostakovich with the score to his Symphony No. 7, Leningrad (2/24).
2/3 Lyadov: The Enchanted Lake (excerpt) Mendelssohn: Overture & Nocture from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Ives: Central Park in the Dark Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht Adolphe: Dark Sand, Sifting Light Stravinsky: The Song of the Nightingale Mussorgksy: Night on Bald Mountain Berlioz: In the Cemetery: Moonlight from Les Nuits d’été Mahler: Night Music from Symphony No. 7 (Joyce DiDonato, ms; conductors: Alan Gilbert, George Szell, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, and Lorin Maazel)
2/10 Tao: Everything Must Go Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Jaap van Zweden, cond)
2/17 Prokofiev: Romeo at Juliette’s Tomb from Romeo and Juliet Bruckner: Symphony No. 4, Romantic Massenet: Pourquoi, me reveiller Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Poem of Ecstasy Fauré: Pelleas et Mélisande Suite Schoenberg: Pelleas et Mélisande Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy?Overture
Wagner: Siegfried?Idyll Tchaikovksy: Waltz from Sleeping Beauty (Luciano Pavarotti, t; conductors: Lorin Maazel, Alan Gilbert, Leone Magiera, Dimitri Mitropoulos and André Kostelanetz)
2/24 Britten: Violin Concerto Shostakovich: Symphony No 7, Leningrad (Simone Lamsma, v; Jaap van Zweden, cond)