Complete Information About Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony in Cleveland at Blossom Music Center. SIBELIUS Lemminkäinen’s ReturnWALTON Cello ConcertoSHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5The Cleveland ...

Conductor John Storgårds pairs Shostakovich’s radical youthful 2nd symphony with the more assured 5th, in performances that emphasise clarity over drama ...

Contrasting symphonies by the brilliant but troubled Dmitri Shostakovich get deluxe treatments from conductor Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony. Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after ...

I recently deep-dived into the huge catalogue of recordings of the Fifth Symphony for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review and ...

As if a returning hero, Jaap van Zweden was rousingly welcomed by the Meyerson Symphony Center audience Thursday night. Appearing as guest conductor with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, of which he was ...

Shostakovich may have secreted a subversive cipher beneath the surface of his life-saving Symphony No. 5. This is all the more shocking since another bad review from ...

On November 7 and 8, the Jacksonville Symphony will perform a Florida Blue Classical program celebrating both our country’s 250th anniversary and a people’s triumph over political authoritarianism. We ...

Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 is dramatic, cinematic, erratic, sarcastic, and full of existential longing – according to Chief Conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, James Gaffigan. Why is it ...

“I think that it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth (Symphony),” says the composer Dmitri Shostakovich in his memoirs. “The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in ‘Boris Godunov.

One of my favorite pastimes is reading composer biographies. For me, context is critical in understanding music and being able to get the most out of every musical journey. Insight into the political, ...

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 ...