Brooklyn Rider’s exploration of the four elements, miniatures by Kurtag and the Anzû Quartet’s debut recording are among the highlights. Over two nights at Carnegie Hall, Andris Nelsons and the ...

This new recording must be one of the best of the year. Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 (Naxos) Stars: 5/5 Verdict: Russian conductor's latest Shostakovich triumph brings back memories of Auckland concert ...

An orchestral program of Mozart’s darkest piano concerto and Shostakovich’s most complex symphony would challenge a conductor under any circumstances. Thursday night at Meyerson Symphony Center, the ...

The major success of Andris Nelsons’ still brief career as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s music director must be his advocacy of the orchestral music of Dmitri Shostakovich. Certainly no BSO ...

Maxim Shostakovich finds meaning in his father's Symphony No. 7 This week, Performance Today looks at the life and times of Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich. He had his own personal wars with the ...

For a composer who saw his popularity fluctuate more wildly than the Dow Jones averages while he was alive, Dmitri Shostakovich would have been astounded to find himself in the middle of a major ...

Canadian violinist James Ehnes couples Khachaturian's cheer-fully garrulous 1940 Violin Concerto with two of Shostakovich's finest string quartets, both written in 1960s: the Seventh, dedicated to the ...

On Jan. 28, 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich woke up to read a sternly worded condemnation of his music in the official Soviet newspaper, Pravda. Never mind that the work in question (his opera “Lady Macbeth ...

The musical and political strands of Dmitri Shostakovich’s life were intertwined like the braids of a noose. Dmitri Shostakovich was a coward. Or at least the great Soviet composer admitted as much to ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony, the one he was obliged to withdraw during rehearsal in 1936 and waited another 25 ...