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 ...

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 ...