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 ...

The first time Natasha Paremski performed the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, it was under the direction of the composer's son, pianist and conductor Maxim Shostakovich. ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Valery Gergiev, Conductor, Bass Denis Matsuev, Piano Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5 ...

Hamlet - Concert Suite from incidental music Lavard Skou-Larsen, Conductor Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Valentina Igoshina, ...

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 ...

The sight of a new YouTube video put a smile on my face: the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2, played by Yuja Wang, with the London Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas. The performance ...

Sometimes one goes to the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the program is impeccably crafted start to finish, with each piece clearly placed in relation to the others. At other times, it feels more like ...

Pianist Sylvia Jiang and trumpeter Huw Dann join conductor Olari Elts and the Auckland Philharmonia for Shostakovich’s Piano ...

When Ukrainian-Australian pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk plays Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No.1 on a national tour starting on Friday, his emotional connection to music made in the shadow of ...