For me, the two piano concertos are not the most important music by Shostakovich. Those would probably be some of the quartets and Symphony No 14 – and even they are less important than the Second ...

Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto turned 60 last year. The age matters, because it's often described as the last piano concerto to have entered the general orchestral repertoire. Shostakovich wrote ...

One of the more enterprising discs of the Shostakovich centenary year unites three substantial works written in 1946: Shostakovich’s Third String Quartet (played trenchantly in the Rudolf Barshai ...

All Yuja Wang performances are astonishing, but some are more astonishing than others. Wang made one of her frequent visits to Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday, Sept. 29, to give a blazing, ...

NEW YORK — Milton Kaye, a pianist and arranger who introduced Dmitri Shostakovich’s first concerto to a U.S. audience, toured war zones with violinist Jascha Heifetz and wrote theme music for the TV ...

Cheerful, delightful, light-hearted - and yes fun, is how the concert programme notes described Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto. It was just that - and in dollops - under the hands of Romanian ...

Mozart was born 250 years ago this month, and it’s the centenary of Shostakovich‘s birth in September. Bernard Haitink joined the London Symphony Orchestra to kick start the New Year with Mozart’s ...

When Ukrainian-Australian pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk plays Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No.1 on a national tour starting on Friday, his emotional connection to music made in the shadow of ...

It may seem straightforward, says the Russian pianist, but Shostakovich’s Second is anything but The Second Piano Concerto (1957) is interesting because it’s supposed to be a student piece (written ...

Sometimes one goes to the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the program is impeccably crafted start to finish, with each piece clearly placed in relation to the others. At other times, it feels more like ...