Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is hard to know how best to mark the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich’s death. His music is so ...

The opening goes off like a cartoon alarm clock, shrill and insistent, the ensuing march more satirical, almost more Prokofiev than Shostakovich in Vasily Petrenko’s hands. This is less the child of ...

"Shostakovich created deeply personal works ... and her quartet will be featured along with special guests, Kids 4 Harmony. Next, on Saturday (May 17), the Linde Center plays host to the ...

He tells the extraordinary story of Shostakovich's 7th Symphony ... to early notation and how music was first written down. Harmony, intervals, triads and cadences. videoHarmony, intervals ...