Shostakovich had already shown his mastery of the symphony and ballet before he wrote his first string quartet in 1938, so ...

Few among us do not wonder about our legacy. What will remain after we have departed a job or this life? Will we leave the ...

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony was considered so shameful that it was banned in his home country for eight years. It ...

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

Like those works, this is a novel without subtlety, nuance or context. Every Shostakovich work in a major key is sarcasm, while those in a minor one are a criticism of the Soviet system. Its ...

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 – ...

where the orchestra will present an eclectic program ranging from the Baroque era to the modern period and including works by ...

The trio, formed in 2019 in the Czech Republic, is violinist Matouš Pěruška, Kristina Vocetková on cello and Jan Vojtek, ...

The Concert Band will perform works by Aaron Copland, Jaime Texidor, Frank H. Losey, Antonín Dvořák, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

The opening cadenza is exposed and virtuosic; the second movement has intricately rhythmic, Shostakovich-inspired ... It allows even solo pieces to work with polyphony. It creates an unexpected ...

Friday’s rendition used the recurring statements of the row as, essentially, anchors around which the music’s other ...