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 ...

The importance of Shostakovich's music means that it features regularly in CD Review's Building a Library feature. This page presents a sequence of Building a Library Bach features dating back to ...

With so many Shostakovich symphonies already in contention ... Like many Western performances, it seems to take its cue from Bernard Haitink’s pioneering Concertgebouw LP version rather than the more ...

The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1996, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...

Lemn Sissay investigates what it was like writing music under Stalin's oppressive regime. Shostakovich was a 20th Century Russian composer and pianist, who spent most of his career working under ...

The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1996, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...

Born in Amsterdam in 1929, Haitink won many awards and was a major figure in the UK's classical music scene. Even in his final months at the podium his performances with the London Symphony ...

He was long associated with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Opera, Covent Garden and the Glyndebourne Festival in Britain, and also conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Dresden ...

In the patiently probing movement that grew organically from those opening bars of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1, the San Francisco Symphony and soloist Sayaka Shoji set off on a ...

The Juneau Symphony is starting this season between two fall elections with a candidate screening of its own as the first of four contenders to replace recently departed Music Director Christopher ...

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