Beginning the program was J.S. Bach’s spirited Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major. Tessa Lark and flutist Alex Sopp, both ...

For a season that saw the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra tackling eight of Beethoven’s nine symphonies and all the raging fury ...

Major orchestras in the US and around the world need little excuse to program the symphonic music of Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975). This year, however, which marks the 50th ...

It’s very possible that a potent double-shot of often gloomy Russian composers — i.e. Alfred Schnittke and Dmitri Shostakovich — didn’t mesh with some folks’ warm spring evening agendas.

There was a neat conjunction of commemorations to this concert, the most obvious one being the fact that that 2025 marks the ...

When there’s a final reckoning of Andris Nelsons’ tenure as artistic head of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his performances and recordings of Dmitri Shostakovich's music will certainly ride ...

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, one of the mainstays of the twentieth-century orchestral repertory, ends with an unapologetic display of musical bombast. The coda consists of thirty-five ...

Said the servant: “This is the revolution, Mitya.” Young Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich only stared and clutched the servant’s apron. But what he saw and heard he pondered in his precocious ...

The combined forces of the Gewandhaus and Boston Symphony unite under Andris Nelsons for a searing Leningrad Symphony, while ...

Beyond virtuosic, the Israeli Inon Barnatan executed the pair with maniacal rapture. Dmitri Shostakovich was no stranger to program music, writing oodles of it (the artistic kind) for Comrade ...

The program's second half presents Dimitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, considered one of the greatest masterpieces of all time in the 20th century. A cello and orchestra piece by composer ...