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

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

At Carnegie Hall, the month of May is coming to a close with Shostakovich and Evgeny Kissin. The pianist is leading a series ...

performing music pieces by Russian composer Dmitry Dmitriyevich Shostakovich. "Looking back, it was a very tough job to launch a professional symphony orchestra from nothing. We are proud that we have ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Over the final four weeks of the 2024–25 Symphony Hall season (Apr. 6–May 3), Andris Nelsons caps his tenth anniversary season at Symphony Hall by revisiting the music of Dmitri Shostakovich ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Some composers can be relied on for a pithy quote. Ask Pierre Boulez his thoughts about the music of Dmitri ...

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 ...

But the short version is that this new work tells the many-layered story of the friendship between the great pianist, Maria Yudina, and the composer, Dmitri Shostakovich. It is written by Ian Kelly – ...