The importance of Dmitry Shostakovich as an influence in the history of classical music is hard to understate. Marking the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth, Performance Today begins a week of ...

Shostakovich may have secreted a subversive cipher beneath the surface of his life-saving Symphony No. 5. This is all the more shocking since another bad review from ...

Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 is dramatic, cinematic, erratic, sarcastic, and full of existential longing – according to Chief Conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, James Gaffigan. Why is it ...

Aside from the obvious marketing hooks, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich this week gives us an opportunity to delve more deeply into the less-explored music ...

“Fate and Freedom” was the thematic thread for pairing symphonies of Beethoven and Shostakovich at this weekend’s concerts in Miami by the Cleveland Orchestra. Beethoven’s 19th century ideals and ...

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An eye- (and ear-) catching coupling. Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony is front and centre of the core repertoire these days – though not always in performances as good as this one – but we rarely hear ...

Symphony No. 5 Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Manfred Honeck, Conductor Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Adagio for Strings Manfred Honeck, Conductor Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Samuel Barber, Composer ...

Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra devoted their concerts last weekend to music composed on a grand scale. The program included Beethoven’s heroic Piano Concerto No. 5 along with ...

It was inevitable that the tormented Shostakovich would someday be the focus of one of the Pacific Symphony’s multidisciplinary “Music Unwound” projects. Although Shostakovich has been “unwound” ...