Dimitri Shostakovich. An example of what some argue is arts inability to flourish without freedom? Or was he a brilliant political rebel forced into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Joseph ...

Our critic tracked one concert, from its first rehearsals to its first performance. Practice is only part of what makes this ensemble excellent. By David Allen Banned for decades in the Soviet Union ...

In Stalin’s Soviet Union, few artists balanced loyalty and rebellion like Dmitri Shostakovich. His early success with operas ...

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The Journey of Dimitri Shostakovich is structured for no apparent reason around a nine-day ocean voyage the ailing composer took near the end of his life. On the Mikhail Lermontov, a Soviet pleasure ...

When Dmitri Shostakovich announced he’d written a 15th Symphony, his fans might have expected another excursion into darkness. It was 1971, and the composer had heart problems as well as neurological ...

In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich's death in 2015, filmmaker Reiner Moritz produced his documentary Dmitri Shostakovich, A Man of Many Faces. With British actor John Hurt ...

Camerata Pacifica will cap its 36th season with the California premiere of Dimitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 15, Op.144, arranged by Viktor Derevyanko for piano trio and percussion, May 14-19, 2026, ...

Rhein Main Airport, Germany, March 22, 1949: Russian composer and pianist Dimitri Shostakovich (center, with glasses) is surrounded by reporters and photographers at Rhein Main Airport. The famous ...

25 September 2006 marks the centenary of Dmitri Shostakovich's birth. The great Russian composer, who died on 9 August 1975, produced his First Symphony at the age of 19, taught at the Moscow and ...