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 ...

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 Dmitri Shostakovich announced he’d written a 15th Symphony, his fans might have expected another excursion into darkness. It was 1971, and the composer had heart problems as well as ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

But next to Wolfgang Amadeus, Nelsons would also offer up a more controversial choice: Dmitri Shostakovich. For a decade, Nelsons has been exploring Shostakovich with the BSO. The project has won ...

Beyond virtuosic, the Israeli Inon Barnatan executed the pair with maniacal rapture. Dmitri Shostakovich was no stranger to program music, writing oodles of it (the artistic kind) for Comrade ...

The program's second half presents Dimitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, considered one of the greatest masterpieces of all time in the 20th century. A cello and orchestra piece by composer ...