Was Dmitri Shostakovich a stunningly original composer whose music ... In 1962 Shostakovich was officially censured by the authorities for the last time for his Symphony No.13, ‘Babi Yar’, whose ...

A performance of the rarely heard “Symphony No. 4” revealed Gianandrea Noseda’s keen understanding of Shostakovich’s music.

When there’s a final reckoning of Andris Nelsons’ tenure as artistic head of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his performances and recordings of Dmitri ... Symphony No. 13 (one of the collection ...

For this titanic wartime work, the San Diego Symphony pulled out all stops, delivering one of the year's most memorable ...

Shostakovich said himself of the piece: "I did depict Stalin in my 10th symphony. I wrote it right after Stalin's death and no one has yet guessed what the symphony is about. It's about Stalin and ...

Guest conductor Jonathon Heyward also led the orchestra in Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto, with Benjamin Grosvenor as soloist ...

Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9. Plus BBC Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating ...

At the core of Sunday’s program was the Symphony No. 6, one of Shostakovich’s most perplexing creations. Preceding it were two choral works, both BSO commissions: Stravinsky’s “Symphony of ...

Toward the latter part of the season, Nelsons will revisit his three-time Grammy Award winning performance of Dmitri ... (Times vary, Symphony Hall) Feb. 13-15: Schubert Symphony No. 6 & Brahms ...

At the start of the Boston Symphony Orchestra ... which included Shostakovich’s son Maxim, Ma added: “We play Shostakovich so that no death is ever just a statistic.” ...

but with his Symphony No 13, Shostakovich again met with official criticism, this time from the Communist Party chairman Nikita Khruschev, who complained that the text of the choral part referring to ...