NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich on 26 November 2017. Dmitri Shostakovich has been played on NTS over 50 times, featured on 44 episodes and was first played on 12 September 2014.

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович) (September 25 [O.S. September 12] 1906, (St Petersburg, Russia) – August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period.

Shostakovich had a complex and difficult relationship with the Soviet government, suffering two official denunciations of his music, in 1936 and 1948, and the periodic banning of his work. At the same time, he received a number of accolades and state…