This concert was long and the music was endlessly despairing, but the orchestra demonstrated their worth and, ultimately, the ...

Listen to whole works from the BBC Proms 2017recorded for the BBC's binaural experiment.

Laid out in four connected movements, the Eleventh, unusually for Shostakovich, draws upon several revolutionary songs and ...

Symphonies Nos 9, 10 and 11 created little interest, No 12 (dedicated to the memory of Lenin) a little more, but with his Symphony No 13, Shostakovich again met with official criticism, this time from ...

Dmitri Shostakovich and four other outstanding Russian composers will visit the University Saturday afternoon as part of a month-long tour of the United States, under the cultural exchange program ...

As seasoned collectors will know, attitudes to the Shostakovich symphonies have tended to polarize in recent years and competing notions of authenticity are well-nigh impossible to square. In the blue ...

He is named 'Hero of Socialist Labour'. He produces his String Quartet no. 11. Shostakovich is elected as an honorary member to the French Academy of Arts and Sciences. He produces the Viola ...