On April 11 at Boston’s Symphony Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s second concert of the “Decoding Shostakovich” series ...

Major orchestras in the US and around the world need little excuse to program the symphonic music of Soviet composer Dmitri ...

Instead of finishing his masterpiece “Khovanshchina,” Modest Mussorgsky is drunk in a ditch. His friend Nikolai ...

The two-minute rest for the soloist at the beginning of the Brahms Violin Concerto is no idle wait. Battle is imminent. Journeying to the sunny theme of the opening movement, the violinist must first ...

Shostakovich was a 20th Century Russian composer and pianist, who spent most of his career working under the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. After studying at music college, Shostakovich embarked on ...

The Hallé’s Principal Conductor, Kahchun Wong, dances his way through an authoritative account of Shostakovich’s Fifth ...

So where is this heading? The Russian, taken all in all, is the greatest of European cultures. Music dominates in Germany, ...

Take its narrative. Ostensibly, the Eleventh commemorates the “Bloody Sunday” massacre of Russian peasantry by imperial ...

However, as part of the 2023-2024 classic series, composer and electric guitarist D. J. Sparr joins the BPO for Shostakovich & Six Strings. “I’m a trained classical composer who also grew up ...