Not everyone knows that... Shostakovich had a deep passion for football! It seems that the Soviet composer, whose 50th anniversary of death we have just celebrated, obsessively-compulsively noted results, goal scorers and top scorers in a notebook entitled "Football Championship of the Soviet Union, formations", a way also to fight the depression into which he had fallen, defining football as the "most beautiful game in the world" and following, like a real ultras, the Leningrad Dynamo and Zenit Leningrad.
This aspect, if you will, lighter and more childlike than Shostakovich brings him closer to the nature of a composer who maintained a close relationship with his inner child, Mozart, throughout his life. In this programme, the sunny and springlike Symphony No. 6 dialogues with the melancholic and lunar Symphony No. 40 by Mozart. But in music, unlike football, everyone always wins.