Perhaps Shostakovich embraced the Bernstein approach precisely because it brought that private hysteria to the surface. (A similar maneuver is found in the Tenth Symphony, from the early fifties ...

In selecting a soloist in Bernstein’s “Serenade ... a guide to understanding its true nature. Symphony No. 5 in D minor Op. 47 by Dmitri Shostakovich was composed in 1937, during one ...

It’s very possible that a potent double-shot of often gloomy Russian composers — i.e. Alfred Schnittke and Dmitri Shostakovich ... in his handling “Symphony No. 5,” which undermines ...

Major orchestras in the US and around the world need little excuse to program the symphonic music of Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich ... turmoil came the Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, which ...

So it is with the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s award-winning, multi-year Shostakovich project under ... initially slotted for the solo in Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade, “after Plato’s ...

One of the composer’s most perplexing creations, performed with works by Stravinsky and Vrebalov, is rendered with uncommon depth and power. The Boston Symphony Orchestra and music director ...

At the start of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s all-Shostakovich concert at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma invoked this darkly cynical statement attributed to Stalin.