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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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. 8, on May 2 and 3 as ...

A beloved guest artist, pianist Conrad Tao, returns for Rachmaninoff’s epic masterwork. Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 ...

Toward the latter part of the season, Nelsons will revisit his three-time Grammy Award winning performance of Dmitri ... No. 2 with Sir Antonio Pappano & Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Times vary, Symphony ...

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 ...

It’s very possible that a potent double-shot of often gloomy Russian composers — i.e. Alfred Schnittke and Dmitri ... Concerto No. 1” and Shostakovich’s rarely heard “Symphony No. ...