Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, one of the mainstays of the twentieth-century orchestral repertory, ends with an unapologetic display of musical bombast. The coda consists of thirty-five ...

During World War II, Soviet photojournalist Dmitri Baltermants was on his way to cover a battle when he passed through the Crimean town of Kerch, where the Nazis had massacred 176,000 citizens.

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 ...

THERE is something compelling and harrowing in this re-issue of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony. Never has the first movement of this great symphony sounded so ominously calm. Never have I heard such ...

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra performs Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8. The extraordinary gravity of the Eighth marks a new high in conductor Alain Altinoglu undertaking of the complete ...

The intrigue surrounding Shostakovich’s “Fifth Symphony” has always surrounded the intensions of its composer. After the success of his The Lady Macbeth of The Mtensk District (to be performed at The ...

Stephen Johnson explores Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony, a work the composer described as a 'poem of suffering'. Show more In the wake of the huge success of the Leningrad Symphony, in 1943 ...