An orchestral program of Mozart’s darkest piano concerto and Shostakovich’s most complex symphony would challenge a conductor under any circumstances. Thursday night at Meyerson Symphony Center, the ...

To mark the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich's death, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform his Symphony No. 7, known as the ‘Leningrad’, a symbol of ...

In the orchestral world, unlike the funk atmosphere inhabited by James Brown when he uttered that familiar phrase, well-worn repertoire doesn't usually highlight the percussion section. But on ...

Kristiina Poska conducts the Norwegian Radio Orchestra in Sibelius' two last symphonies. In between, Christian Ihle Hadland performs Shostakovich's energetic Concerto for Piano and Trumpet with the ...

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 ...

On Jan. 28, 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich woke up to read a sternly worded condemnation of his music in the official Soviet newspaper, Pravda. Never mind that the work in question (his opera “Lady Macbeth ...

Each entry in Vasily Petrenko’s Shostakovich cycle with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has come in at a very high level, in some cases setting a new bar for performances of these works, even the ...

A greyness prevails – and it’s that uniformity of colour which detracts from some of the most original writing in the entire canon of Shostakovich symphonies. For sure the monstrous war machine which ...

Streaming platforms for Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad' @ Gewandhaus, Leipzig haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online.

Contrary to the unsettling nature of what follows, each variation in scoring designed, in effect, to recalibrate the wretched tune is subtly and slickly inflected so that far from suggesting a ...