“It was for his son Maxim’s nineteenth birthday, on this day in I957, that Shostakovich produced this tremendous concerto.”

Image: “The Kremlin Wall Necropolis is the former national cemetery of the Soviet Union, located in Red Square in Moscow beside the Kremlin Wall.” (Wikipedia)

See YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day (2017), by Clemency Burton-Hill: 10th May entry.