Shostakovich/ Singapore Symphony Orch - Jazz & Variety Suites Format:SACD Roger Bekono made a deep

Roger Bekono made a deep mark in the contemporary history of Cameroonian music through the four-on-the-floor

Almost 20 years later

Eric St Michaels

many passages in this trio seem to be groping for direction: as Dvorak specialist John Clapham once remarked

Shostakovich/ Singapore Symphony Orch - Jazz & Variety Suites Format:SACD Roger Bekono made a deepDmitri Shostakovich was the most versatile of composers: popular and serious styles came to him with equal ease and are frequently found together in the same work. In his twenties, before the heavy hand of Soviet officialdom slapped him down in 1936, music of every kind poured out of him: symphonies, operas and full length ballets but also a great amount of music for film and theatre. Here Andrew Litton leads the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in a