The Leningrad Symphony has been used as a political football almost from its inception and continues to be so. Those rabidly hostile to the Soviet Union claim that its composer Dmitri Shostakovich was ...

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) announces it will perform Shostakovich’s defiant Symphony No 7 with a cutting-edge ...

After a pause of eight years, Shostakovich returns to the symphonic form and produces his 10th Symphony. It is recognised as a masterpiece both here and abroad. String Quartets no. 7 & 8 are composed.

Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Boulez, Berio, Khachaturian, Messiaen, Schnittke, Bernstein, Dutilleux and Lutoslawski have also written for Rostropovich. He was Music Director of the National Symphony ...

Laid out in four connected movements, the Eleventh, unusually for Shostakovich, draws upon several revolutionary songs and ...

One of the great cellists of recent years, Mstislav Rostropovich inspired or commissioned over 100 works including major contributions to the cello literature by his friends Shostakovich ... of ...