Shostakovich/ Halle/ Platt - Symphony 5 / Four RomancesDescribed as being "one of his most important utterances," Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 was written as a response to the sinister unsigned article which appeared in Pravda, the state newspaper, in January 1936, denouncing the composer and implying the ultimate threat, during the time of Stalin's "Great Terror." Whilst the messages of the Symphony have been subject to a variety of often conflicting interpretations, the music and vivid orchestral

flexibility

Public Image - this new generation also show an exquisitely open source of electronic and disparate influences

the reaction is recorded

Theater an der Wien in Vienna

Against the savage monsters that lurk outside the glass walls of Flandore

Performers on the album are soprano Yolanda Rhodes

New Jersey indie-rock pioneers The Feelies are celebrating their 40th anniversary with the release of In Between

Damaged Goods Records are releasing a compilation vinyl LP and CD featuring bands from in the ARE THEY HOSTILE' DOCUMENTARY film including Johnny Moped

the making of the album

Pere Ubu as well as Chic and Talking Heads

The CD's color palette is vast

'Butterflies'