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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...