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

“Another page from the creative life of Dmitry Dmitriyevich has opened up for me, and I decided that this unfinished composition can be interesting to all those who love Shostakovich’s music ...

It opens in 1937 in Leningrad as composer Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich waits to be arrested by the Soviet secret police. It is the middle of the night and although he is convinced that he is ...

Dmitri Shostakovich has written 1 shows including Black Sea Follies (Composer).

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 ...

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 ...

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.