The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin Online

Valery Gergiev - Self - Conductor "Symphonies Nos. 4 5 6 7 8 9" and "Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk District" / Interviewee / Pianist "Rayok", Holandia Radio Philharmonic - Themselves - Orchestra "Symphonies Nos. 4 5 6 7 8 and 9", Flora Litvinova - Self - Friend, Graham Haley - Shostakovich (voice) , Dmitri Shostakovich - Self (archive footage) , Dmitri Tolstoy - Self - Composer, Joseph Stalin - Self (archive footage) , Bulat Minzhilkiev - Boris - Opera "Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk District" / Self - Baritone "Rayok", Irina Loskutova - Katerina - Opera "Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk District", Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra - Themselves - Orchestra (Opera "Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk District") (as The Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre) , Karen Khachaturyan - Self - Composer (as Karen Khachaturian) , Abram Gozenpud - Self - Musicologist, Mariana Sabinina - Self - Musicologist, Mariya Konniskaya - Self - Friend, Natan Perelman - Self - Friend