Take its narrative. Ostensibly, the Eleventh commemorates the “Bloody Sunday” massacre of Russian peasantry by imperial ...

After intermission came Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, another work stamped with a personal signature — in this case, the four notes that spell out the composer’s initials.

On April 11 at Boston’s Symphony Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s second concert of the “Decoding Shostakovich” series ...

Major orchestras in the US and around the world need little excuse to program the symphonic music of Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich ... turmoil came the Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Edward Seckerson chooses his favourite recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 from the many available versions. Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 in E minor was premiered by the Leningrad ...

Kahchun Wong returned to the symphony with which he made his first big impression conducting the Hallé – and made a big ...

Dominated by a new James MacMillan work, and a lively couple of pieces by Shostakovich reflecting on the October Revolution ...

Acclaimed violinist Chương Vũ, who returns from the US, will hold a concert at the HCM City Opera on April 13.