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 ...

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

Young artists can’t make it big without playing the big concertos — long, technically difficult works that take years to perfect. By this metric, siblings Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason have certainly ...

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.

The Ulster Orchestra ended its 2024-25 Season on Friday with an attractive programme featuring the mighty Fifth Symphony by ...

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 ...

This year’s event offered a uniquely immersive experience, blending historical narrative, archival visuals, and live performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s “String Quartet No.3 in F Major ...

British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason just released a recording of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Second Cello Concerto. He says he’s ...

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 ...

Orchestra Iowa (previously the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra) presented their next-to-last concert of the season on Sunday, ...