The Leningrad Symphony has been used as a political football almost from its inception and continues to be so. Those rabidly hostile to the Soviet Union claim that its composer Dmitri Shostakovich was ...

Andris Nelsons leads a well-played performance from the Boston Symphony Orchestra of the composer’s long-banned opera ...

Semyon Bychkov has been gathering golden opinions of late, both for the clarity and lucidity of his Strauss conducting and for his stewardship of the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra in Cologne ...

Despite a rousing start the touring VSO produce some understated Brahms and Shostakovich at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall.