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

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 ...

One newspaper announced: "Today there will be a concert by enemy of the people Shostakovich". The composer described himself as having been "near suicide. The danger horrified me and I saw no ...

At a fraught contemporary moment, the BSO performed Shostakovich’s “Babi Yar” on Thursday night in Symphony Hall, concluding its traversal of the composer’s complete symphonies. “It ...

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 ...

Legendary Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote Symphony No. 7 as the Nazis were laying siege to his home town of Leningrad. Author MT Anderson takes a dive into that bleak chapter of world ...

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

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 ...

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 ...