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Halle Choir- Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3; Two Scherzos (CD) Brain Bagz & Blood Bags 2 This Note's for YouFor this, the fifth instalment of his Shostakovich symphony cycle, John Storgards turns to some of the earliest of the composer's orchestral output, works which Shostakovich largely wrote during his student years. The orchestral scherzo was a favourite task set by composition tutors of the time: the relatively simple form still demands that the student produce contrasting material for the outer and central sections, and manage the transitions