Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2; Three Fantastic Dances; Five Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (Dmitri Shostakovich, piano; Ludovic Vaillant, trumpet; French National Radio Orchestra, Andre ...

One of the more enterprising discs of the Shostakovich centenary year unites three substantial works written in 1946: Shostakovich’s Third String Quartet (played trenchantly in the Rudolf Barshai ...

Hunted and haunted, Dmitri Shostakovich worked in a maddening and almost comical variety of styles, evidently in the belief that by making himself a moving target he might avoid being caught for too ...

For me, the two piano concertos are not the most important music by Shostakovich. Those would probably be some of the quartets and Symphony No 14 – and even they are less important than the Second ...

It had to happen. Following his superb set of Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues two years ago, Alexander Melnikov has turned to the composer's piano concertos. The Russian pianist's own liner notes ...

For this second subscription week of the season, Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra returned to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. The composer’s symphonies have been a leitmotif of ...

NEW YORK — Milton Kaye, a pianist and arranger who introduced Dmitri Shostakovich’s first concerto to a U.S. audience, toured war zones with violinist Jascha Heifetz and wrote theme music for the TV ...

Ramezani and a large number of scholars and musicians, including Nader Mashayekhi, attended a ceremony organized on Friday evening at Tehran’s Rudaki Hall to introduce the book named “Shostakovich ...

If you’re going to devote a late summer festival’s program to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich, you’ve either spent a little too much time in the Door County sun—or you know exactly what you’re doing.

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote much of his music with qualities of conflict, anxiety, and sardonic humor while under constant scrutiny and threat from Soviet officials, including Stalin. But for the ...