Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The composer’s 12th, from 1961, is being played by the orchestra for the first time under the conductor Rafael Payare, also making his debut. By ...

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra has quietly announced a complete change in the program for the May 10-12 performances at its newly renovated Geffen Hall at the city’s Lincoln Center arts complex.

This intimate concert experience focuses on single works with commentary from Andrés Orozco-Estrada. The program explores the political upheaval of the Russian Revolution and its leader, Lenin.

The London Symphony Orchestra continued their April-June season last night in the Barbican Hall with a programme of Shostakovich and MacMillan. As conductor Gianandrea Noseda nears the end of his ...

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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 ...

I’ve had dozens of conversations that discussed the greatest symphonies of all time. I’ve read dozens of articles on the same topic. The usual suspects are all there, Beethoven’s Ninth, Mahler’s Ninth ...

It was one of the more striking moments of Riccardo Muti’s tenure as Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director. Standing before a packed Orchestra Hall – and surrounded by a huge contingent of CSO ...