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

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

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

The concert is dead, we’re often told. Or if not actually dead, then terminally stiff and unappealing to younger audiences. It needs to be turned into an experience, where your entire field of ...

So, when the Russian leader Stalin died, Shostakovich released these compositions and the world learnt what a great composer Shostakovich really was.

Dmitri Shostakovich, cramped in his doghouse ... realistic and emotionally powerful music. The composer felt fully the pathos of the heroic lives of the young Komsomols; he also understood ...

Shostakovich was a 20th Century Russian composer and pianist, who spent most of his career working under the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. After studying at music college, Shostakovich embarked on ...

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 – ...

Nevertheless, while Prokofiev and Stravinsky had grown up under the Tsars, Shostakovich was the first and arguably the greatest composer to emerge from Communism. His first music lessons (on the piano ...