Next year marks the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death and the ensemble Cuarteto Casals is launching a complete cycle ...

Mozart owned a starling, Shostakovich loved his dog, and Ravel was smitten with his kittens. We take a look at our favourite ...

Even fellow musician Sergei Prokofiev, whom Shostakovich considered the “Greatest Russian composer of today,” publicly ...

Dmitri Shostakovich, cramped in his doghouse ... realistic and emotionally powerful music. The composer felt fully the pathos of the heroic lives of the young Komsomols; he also understood ...

But the short version is that this new work tells the many-layered story of the friendship between the great pianist, Maria Yudina, and the composer, Dmitri Shostakovich. It is written by Ian Kelly – ...

Meanwhile, Emmy-winning composer Jeff Beal and his wife Joan have donated $ ... Nor for his Russian predecessors, Prokofiev ...

To celebrate the spooky season this year, we're slashing apart a 1917 silent horror film with composer Andrew Earle Simpson to find out how music can be the beating heart of suspense. Grab your ...

Celebrating the composer’s hundred-and-fiftieth birthday, at a festival in Bloomington, Indiana.

The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra has performed its fifth concert at the Berlin Philharmonic on Sunday, 27 October. The performance and the selection of works, including Tristium by Ukrainian composer ...