Major orchestras in the US and around the world need little excuse to program the symphonic music of Soviet composer Dmitri ...

As a native of Leningrad, whose mother survived the 872-day siege, conductor Semyon Bychkov believes he has a "genetic" affinity with the Seventh. Such words seemed to have cast a spell on the BBC ...

Amanda Vickery and Tom Service tell the story of the remarkable performance of Shostakovich's 7th Symphony at the Philharmonic Hall in Leningrad in 1942 in the midst of the siege of the city.

Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 in E minor was premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky on 17 December 1953. In his memoirs, the composer revealed that he ...

Järvi was taken under the wings of Yevgeny Mravinsky and Nikolai Rabionovich at the Leningrad Conservatory in the former USSR. Having returned to Estonia, Järvi took up posts with the Estonian Radio ...

Andris Nelsons leads a well-played performance from the Boston Symphony Orchestra of the composer’s long-banned opera ...

an orchestra director was given an almost impossible task: to stage the premiere of Dimitri Shostakovitch's "Leningrad Symphony". The performance became a symbol of the brief triumph of culture ...

Acclaimed violinist Chương Vũ, who returns from the US, will hold a concert at the HCM City Opera on April 13.