The importance of Dmitry Shostakovich as an influence in the history of classical music is hard to understate. Marking the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth, Performance Today begins a week of ...

These two live performances, recorded in the Royal Albert Hall in the 1964 Prom season, vividly demonstrate that even in his 80s Leopold Stokowski had few rivals in inspiring performances of the ...

A health warning: it is not advisable to listen to this pair of discs in one go. The second volume in the ongoing Shostakovich symphony cycle from Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra is a ...

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 ...

With the second instalment of Vasily Petrenko's Shostakovich cycle for Naxos maintaining the high standard set in the first (his account of the Eleventh Symphony earlier this year), the discs seem to ...

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Aside from the obvious marketing hooks, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich this week gives us an opportunity to delve more deeply into the less-explored music ...

Symphony No. 5 Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Manfred Honeck, Conductor Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Adagio for Strings Manfred Honeck, Conductor Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Samuel Barber, Composer ...

An eye- (and ear-) catching coupling. Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony is front and centre of the core repertoire these days – though not always in performances as good as this one – but we rarely hear ...

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