Next week, two unusual performances at Fort Lewis College remind us of our good fortune to simply live here and have access ...

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

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

On Nov. 2, the Jerusalem Quartet flooded the Mahaney Arts Center with passionate string music ranging from classical to modern. Celebrating their 30th season, Jerusalem Quartet returned to Middlebury ...

The Danish String Quartet is not your stereotypical stodgy string quartet, an image that happily is fading from the classical ...

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

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 ...

Showcasing excerpts from the symphony’s upcoming concert of Shostakovich’s violin concerto, the duo had to contend with this demanding work. Rising to the occasion with the virtuosic skill we might ...

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 – ...