David Nice recommends a version of Shostakovich's 9th Symphony. This powerful work was described in the composer's own words: "If the Seventh and the Eighth symphonies bore a tragic-heroic character, ...
Contrasting symphonies by the brilliant but troubled Dmitri Shostakovich get deluxe treatments from conductor Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony. Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after ...
Friends and pupils for whom Dmitri Shostakovich played excerpts have left descriptions of the victory symphony he planned for the end of the second World War: “majestic in scale, in pathos, in its ...
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 ...
Houston Symphony presents Shostakovich Symphony No. 10, a program of 20th century classics that kicks off with one of Shostakovich’s brightest and most joyful works, his Festive Overture. Then, marvel ...
Aside from the obvious marketing hooks, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich this week gives us an opportunity to delve more deeply into the less-explored music ...
Contrasting symphonies by the brilliant but troubled Dmitri Shostakovich get deluxe treatments from conductor Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony. Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after ...
A health warning: it is not advisable to listen to this pair of discs in one go. The second volume in the ongoing Shostakovich symphony cycle from Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra is a ...
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