A less than shattering experience simply won’t pass muster in this of all Shostakovich symphonies. In an unusually perceptive liner note, Robert Layton hits the nail on the head when he says ` It is the exercise of true symphonic discipline that removes the Tenth from the private world to the universal. Quite so.
Moving on, and if I may say so, you have hit the nail on the head with your reference to the registration and its rarely stated function to boost the circulation of the LTA’s own magazine.
I’ve been having some quite intelligent guesses but no one’s hit the nail on the head. This is the number of the site. Because each site has a number and could you have a guess at how many excavations? Yes? More than seven.