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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies celebrate the birthdays of composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Gustav Holst. We'll hear violinist Mayu Kishima bring warmth to Shostakovich's searing A minor ...

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 ...

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 ...