The Barbican marked the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death with a first-class performance of his chamber music ...

It has been 100 years since Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich finished writing his first symphony in 1925. When Symphony ...

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 ...

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In May, the world’s most comprehensive Shostakovich event will take over Leipzig - a city that has always treated the ...

He returned last fall in his first concert since being named music director designate. The “Heroic Spirit” theme stems from ...

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come to hear one of our Meadows Concerto Competition winners, Alex Heidt, perform the Saint-Saëns Violin concerto no. 3, after which we will play the epic Symphony no. 10 by Dmitri Shostakovich." ...

Following his death, the government of the USSR issued the following summary of Shostakovich’s work, drawing attention to a ‘remarkable example of fidelity to the traditions of musical classicism, and ...