Dmitri Shostakovich

Stalin thinks he's smart, but I'm much smarter than he thinks I am!
I prefer to stay out of politics, but the authorities often have other ideas.

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Marx avenue, Moscow, USSR, 1974.

[USSR Pictures @PicturesUssr]

Fireworks in Moscow in honor of the liberation of Lviv from German troops. July 27, 1944.

[medici.tv @medicitv]

[BIRTHDAY] Happy birthday to American piano virtuoso, Van Cliburn, born on this day in 1934! Watch him perform Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op.30 alongside the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Kirill Kondrashin. https://t.co/5T2bSgULhA

[USSR Pictures @PicturesUssr]

Entrance to the Soviet exhibition in London. UK, 1968

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Soviet girls, 1970s.

[Dmitri Shostakovich @DDS1906]

@358melod4 Glenn Gould.

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Two of the very best. ❤️❤️

[🎶 Diana 🎺🎷🎸🎹🎻🥁 @Diana_Kuegler]

Johann Sebastian Bach

Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor
BWV 1052: I. Allegro

Glenn Gould - 🎹

Conductor: Leonard Bernstein

[Dmitri Shostakovich @DDS1906]

❤️❤️

[Janet Horvath @playinglesshurt]

#quoteoftheday from distinguished cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich. #cello #music

[Dmitri Shostakovich @DDS1906]

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[medici.tv @medicitv]

[BIRTHDAY] Happy Birthday to German violin phenomenon Anne-Sophie Mutter! Watch the virtuoso perform Bach’s Partita for Solo Violin No. 2, a work that showcases her astounding artistry. https://t.co/PRP49MkcDm

[USSR Pictures @PicturesUssr]

Soviet advertising poster "The best tea satellites - cookies, Stolichny cake, plum jam," 1959

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

"Cafe Saigon, Leningrad" painting by Sergey Frolov, USSR, 1966.

[Dmitri Shostakovich @DDS1906]

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Sheremetyevo Moscow airport, USSR, 1974.

[USSR Pictures @PicturesUssr]

A ZIL-117 sedan parked in-front of the COMECON headquarters and Kudrinskaya Square Building, Moscow, 1970s
Photo: Valentin Sobolev

[Dmitri Shostakovich @DDS1906]

@socialwriter Oh yes. I'm familiar with your career. ✈️

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[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Aeroflot Soviet airlines on-board service. Photo by Varfolomey Teterin, 1966.

[Dmitri Shostakovich @DDS1906]

@socialwriter I knew you would appreciate this photograph.

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🖤🤍

[oui cinéma @ouicinema]

Galina Belyaeva

A Hunting Accident – Emil Loteanu (1978)

What a beautiful waltz by Eugen Doga

[Dmitri Shostakovich @DDS1906]

JS Bach. ❤️

[medici.tv @medicitv]

Itzhak Perlman's story is that of a great triumph of character, talent and tenacity over seemingly insurmountable odds.

[Nicole Conroth 🎹🎶🇧🇪 @ConrothN]

German conductor and composer #WilhelmFurtwängler with three violinists of the #ViennaPhilharmonic, #WilliBoskovsky, #CarlJohannis and #FritzSedlak in 1954 🎶