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Auditorium of Milan
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.
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.
