Original: Harwood Academic Publishers , 1995 as well as giving the Russian premiere of Benjamin Britten 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream and the Western premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich 's Fourth Symphony at the 1962 Edinburgh Festival .
Simplified: He gave the first performances of many works of Soviet composers , as well as the first Russian performance of Benjamin Britten 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream .