Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Cristian Măcelaru perform Shostakovich's masterly Symphony ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover the unique sound of the tuba in this performance of Shostakovich's waltz. #ensemble #shostakovich #waltz ...

Shostakovich wrote his First Cello Concerto for the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. He loved it so much, he learnt the whole piece off-by-heart in four days. Timecodes refer to the ...

"I met him only once; he was sick by that time – it was the last year of his life. We had a talk – he was a nervous man, wary." So says Bernard Haitink of his meeting with the great Dmitri ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Unlike his 15 symphonies, most of which are “public” in character, Shostakovich’s 15 quartets are notable for their ...

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Although for some of these performances revolutionary zeal is replaced by routine, the 13th stands apart Andris Nelsons’s Shostakovich cycle, taken from live performances in Boston, has been released ...