Critic at large Ed Siegel finds that the conductor and the orchestra, with more than a little help from friends like Yuja Wang and Yo-Yo Ma, burnish both their legacy and the composer's.

All this week on Classic Drive, Lorcan will feature music from 'Shostakovich: Symphonies; Concertos; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk ...

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

Nothing lasts forever, as Taylor Swift reminds us, be they relationships, careers, or music festivals. So it happened that the clock ran out Saturday on both the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “Decoding ...

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 ...

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.” ...