Three new playlist picks coming right to you from Brian McCreath, director of production at GBH Music and host of CRB’s ...

In reality, as was later revealed, the composer had been politely pressed by the orchestra’s director to pull the work. Shostakovich spent years after its disappearance downplaying and ...

Mozart owned a starling, Shostakovich loved his dog, and Ravel was smitten with his kittens. We take a look at our favourite composer-pet relationships. Life can be lonely for a composer, who may ...

In May, the world’s most comprehensive Shostakovich event will take over Leipzig - a city that has always treated the composer seriously Few composers of the twentieth century have proved themselves ...

Shostakovich is reputed to have said “watching something on television (presumably nowadays that would have been online?) or watching a ...

The previous year, Stalin had conspicuously walked out of a performance of Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” and the composer had been castigated in Pravda for practicing decadent ...

The Composer. Dmitri Shostakovich’s father was an engineer. His mother, a student of the St. Petersburg (later Leningrad) Conservatory of Music, believed that children should never be taught ...

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