Dmitri Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony was considered so shameful that it was banned in his home country for eight years. It ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Houston has at least 170 "dangerous" buildings, including run-down apartments, a burned-down restaurant, an old HISD school, and most recently, the building where a firefighter died after a wall ...

We followed every rumor about the OnePlus 13 for months, but now it’s here — and it’s everything we hoped for. It might not be available in the Western market yet, but it will be soon.

The creation of this Parton-based “storytelling experience” — which will not have the singer involved as a live participant in the shows, but featured on-screen — was first revealed in May ...

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It will be remembered as a historic weekend for Austin entertainment and culture. Arranged as a chamber orchestra — a smaller ensemble harking back to those of Beethoven's day — the musicians ...