The most treasurable quality of Shostakovich’s music is its ambiguity ... enjoy a first-rate chamber orchestra doing what it does best. IH BBC Philharmonic, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester ...

Shostakovich is born in St Petersburg on September 25 to Dmitrij Boleslavovich Shostakovich (1875-1922), a government inspector of weights and measures, and his wife Sofja Vasilevna (1878-1955 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A PRAVDA editorial early in 1936, possibly written by Stalin himself and more probably merely with his knowledge, is the hinge upon which Julian Barnes’s imaginings of Dmitri Shostakovich’s interior ...

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 – ...