An eye- (and ear-) catching coupling. Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony is front and centre of the core repertoire these days – though not always in performances as good as this one – but we rarely hear ...

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 ...

Symphony No. 2, '(The) Age of Anxiety' Leonard Bernstein, Conductor Seymour Lipkin, Piano New York Philharmonic Orchestra Leonard Bernstein, Composer Symphony No. 5 New York Philharmonic Orchestra ...

Over the final four weeks of the 2024–25 Symphony Hall season (Apr. 6–May 3), Andris Nelsons caps his tenth anniversary season at Symphony Hall by revisiting the music of Dmitri Shostakovich that has ...

Shostakovich had at least two artistic faces -- the public and the private -- but as Friday's provocative concert by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony made clear, neither is ...