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

Thomas Søndergård conducts thrilling Shostakovich to close to the RSNO Season: lively Festive Overture, introspective Second ...

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

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

The Ulster Orchestra ended its 2024-25 Season on Friday with an attractive programme featuring the mighty Fifth Symphony by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and two pieces by the English ...

Watch and listen to recent highlights, including a Shostakovich festival in Germany, the Cleveland Orchestra’s Strauss and Nina Stemme’s Isolde.

The Prelude and Fugue, at once austere and probing, received a performance of clarity and restraint, with Kissin and the Kopelman Quartet – like Gideon Kremer, a living link to the Shostakovich ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra staged a concert ...

THE RSNO’s Music Director Thomas Sondergard has form with Shostakovich, and especially the mighty juggernaut that is the composer’s Symphony ...

Across half an hour of fascinating insight, he tells Editor Martin Cullingford about how he responds to Shostakovich’s music and life, and about what makes the composer’s music so distinct, and so ...

I think my experience of South Africa has been that one has to keep an optimism and a pessimism together, and neither by ...

Is he at one with Shostakovich because he was Soviet-born, like Shostakovich? (Actually, the composer was born eleven years before the October Revolution.) I believe the answer is no. He just “gets” ...