Houston Symphony presents Shostakovich Symphony No. 10, a program of 20th century classics that kicks off with one of Shostakovich’s brightest and most joyful works, his Festive Overture. Then, marvel ...

Bernard Haitink's cycle of the Shostakovich symphonies for Decca, studio recordings from the 1980s, remains one of the finest available on disc. The accounts of the Fourth and 10th are not among its ...

Dmitri Shostakovich began work on his Symphony No. 10 just a few weeks after the death of Joseph Stalin. The dictator had at various times denounced and banned Shostakovich’s music, but the composer ...

Yep, bet you didn’t see that title coming. You’ve definitely never heard Shostakovich like this before. Joachim Horsley has arranged the second movement of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 in an ...

Don’t press play without checking the volume levels first: Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra begin their new Shostakovich series with the Passacaglia from the opera Lady Macbeth of ...

Symphony No. 10 Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra Jaap Van Zweden, Conductor Symphony No. 10 Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra Jaap Van Zweden, Conductor Mahler’s impact on those that followed him was ...

The Music Shostakovich was in bad odour with the Soviet authorities after the Second World War, as he had been in the 1930s, for writing ‘personal’ rather than ‘official’ music. The Tenth Symphony ...

When it comes to Shostakovich, the BSO doesn’t have much of a track record. New music director Andris Nelsons is about to change that. This Deutsche Grammophon release of a performance recorded live ...

If you haven’t yet become aware of what’s been going on at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under its young Russian conductor, Vasily Petrenko, then this searingly played, spectacularly ...

The arrival of Andris Nelsons as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra has the potential for a major new partnership in the US. In this recording, first of a series and captured live at ...

Symphony No. 10 Boston Symphony Orchestra Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Andris Nelsons, Conductor Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk district, Movements: Passacaglia Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Boston ...