Following his death, the government of the USSR issued the following summary of Shostakovich’s work, drawing attention to a ‘remarkable example of fidelity to the traditions of musical classicism, and ...

Lemn Sissay investigates what it was like writing music under Stalin's oppressive regime. Shostakovich was a 20th Century Russian composer and pianist, who spent most of his career working under ...

Schwalm, Helga 2020. Imagining Compromised Creativity: Art and Fear in Shostakovich Bio-Fiction. Slavonica, Vol. 25, Issue. 1, p. 25. Mildorf, Jarmila 2023. Reflections on Music in Fiction: Rose ...

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Yet Dmitry Shostakovich had a complex and troubled relationship with the Soviet regime under which he lived most of his life.

The opera world is mourning beloved Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who has died at the age of 55. Regarded as one the finest baritones of his age, he was diagnosed with brain cancer two-and ...

At a time when America struggled -- often violently -- to sort out the competing claims of democracy and individual gain, Carnegie championed both. He saw himself as a hero of working people, yet ...

The importance of Shostakovich's music means that it features regularly in CD Review's Building a Library feature. This page presents a sequence of Building a Library Bach features dating back to ...