The three MUSICAL-MENTE concerts evoke the creative genius of composers in the sphere of the political regimes of their time. In February, the focus is on Dmitri Schostakovich's repressed freedom under Soviet rule, with which he had a complex relationship. He wrote both works in implicit protest (from the 1930s onwards, when he suffered his first attacks in the newspaper Pravda, when he composed the Sonata in this concert's programme) and music that the regime officially rewarded (the Quintet with piano, for which he received the Stalin Prize).

The second concert in the third edition of MUSICAL-MENTE takes place on 15 February. In this performance, the pianist and curator of the cycle Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro joins Boris Brovtsyn and Alexandra Raikhlina (violin), Jennifer Stumm (viola) and Adrian Brendel (cello) to perform works by the Russian composer Dmitri Schostakovich.