He is named 'Hero of Socialist Labour'. He produces his String Quartet no. 11. Shostakovich is elected as an honorary member to the French Academy of Arts and Sciences. He produces the Viola ...

Listen to whole works from the BBC Proms 2017recorded for the BBC's binaural experiment.

Symphonies Nos 9, 10 and 11 created little interest, No 12 (dedicated to the memory of Lenin) a little more, but with his Symphony No 13, Shostakovich again met with official criticism, this time from ...