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 ...

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

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 ...

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 Festival Finale on the afternoon of September 14 marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth with performances of ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s fitting that conductor Pablo Heras-Casado should be leading The Cleveland Orchestra this week in Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 — the work of a mid-career ...