The Carduccis maintained astonishing intensity throughout the complete cycle of Shostakovich’s 15 string quartets – performed in a single day Most ensembles gung-ho enough to attempt a complete cycle ...

The BPO Classics Series, titled SHOSTAKOVICH NO. 5, opened Friday, February 6 at 10:30 (a “coffee concert”) and will conclude ...

The BSO and its music director, Andris Nelson, won the Best Orchestral Performance while cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the BSO won in ...

It was 100 years ago that Dmitri Shostakovich, as a young music student at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, completed his First Symphony. He finished the work in April 1925, and did not turn 19 years ...

Many years ago, a relative of mine used the term "music-intense" in conversation to describe a musician we both knew. I think it's also an apt descriptor for BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson. His ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dmitri Shostakovich’s persecution by commissars should be reason enough for us to revisit and listen to his works today - Ullstein ...

This summer, as Writers & Company wraps up after a remarkable 33 year run, Eleanor Wachtel presents ten of her favourite episodes chosen from the show's archive. *This episode originally aired June 5, ...

For a composer who saw his popularity fluctuate more wildly than the Dow Jones averages while he was alive, Dmitri Shostakovich would have been astounded to find himself in the middle of a major ...

Stylish Beethoven from Benjamin Grosvenor and dramatic Ustvolskaya from Yuriy Yurchuk, but Petrenko and the RPO's blistering Shostakovich steals the show.

Evgeny Kissin, Gidon Kremer, Maxim Rysanov, Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė and Alexander Roslavets collaborated in a thoughtful and powerful programme of Shostakovich’s chamber music In the 50 years since his ...

Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich died in 1975 without completing his dream of setting Anton Chekhov’s short story, “The Black Monk,” as an opera. Thanks to playwright James Glossman and musician ...