Yulianna Avdeeva plays Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich, who died 50 years ago this year, embodied the artist limited and muzzled by a dictatorial regime (in his case, Stalinist Russia) with which he maintained a lifelong, complex, and inextricable relationship. His Preludes and Fugues are both a tribute to the alpha and omega of Western art music, Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, and the expression of a tormented yet resilient voice.