Shostakovich’s Vibrant Valediction. The composer’s 15th Symphony, his last, blends a hard-earned gravity with the buoyant spirit of youth. By Peter Saenger . Share. Resize. Listen (2 min) ...

At a fraught contemporary moment, the BSO performed Shostakovich’s “Babi Yar” on Thursday night in Symphony Hall, concluding its traversal of the composer’s complete symphonies.

Schnittke and Shostakovich push the NSO to the peak of its powers. Violinist Lisa Batiashvili joined the National Symphony Orchestra for a powerful two--piece program of works by the Russian ...

When guns speak, the muses keep silent, says an old Russian proverb. Last winter, as he listened to the roar of German artillery and watched the sputtering of German incendiaries from the roof of ...

He deserved it. For Shostakovich’s Op. 99 is a composition that abandons the brooding effects, dark colors and heavy textures of traditional Russian orchestral music and his own brassy idiom for ...

Jaap van Zweden returns to Dallas for Shostakovich’s eloquent Fifth Symphony. Despite its grandeur and optimistic façade — huge climaxes, triumphant marches, exhilarating brass and percussion ...

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During the orchestra’s two-night visit to New York, the Boston players, led by their music director Andris Nelsons, gave bravura performances of Shostakovich — his 11th and 15th symphonies, as ...

You couldn’t make a much better case for Shostakovich as the musician, the man and the modernist as this set does. It’s quite an accomplishment for Nelsons and the BSO.

In Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center on Wednesday evening, May 7, Kissin’s program of J.S. Bach, Chopin, and Shostakovich, plus encores, had something to satisfy every fan’s wish.

Guest conductor Pablo Heras-Casado led the Cleveland Orchestra in stirring performances of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 and Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 on Thursday at Severance Music Center.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, one of the mainstays of the twentieth-century orchestral repertory, ends with an unapologetic display of musical bombast. The coda consists of thirty-five ...