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 ...

Shostakovich is admitted to the Petrograd Conservatory. He studies piano with Leonid Nikolayev and composition with Maximilian Shteynberg. He also works with Glazunov. He writes his Opus 1.

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 ...

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 ...

He added: “Various Shostakovich works have been rediscovered in recent years, following the opening up of Soviet archives in Russia. “Some of these pieces, like this one, have been known about for ...

Playing and interpretation I found marginally less convincing. While this may not be one of the Shostakovich works previously recorded by Paavo Berglund, he has directed performances all over the ...

In the patiently probing movement that grew organically from those opening bars of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Violin ... took the full measure of the work, with Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen ...