Boulez vs Shostakovich — discord and harmony at the heart of 20th-century music . This year, a spotlight will be shone on the work of two composers with diametrically opposite styles and attitudes.

Shostakovich’s Vibrant Valediction. The composer’s 15th Symphony, his last, blends a hard-earned gravity with the buoyant spirit of youth. By Peter Saenger . Share. Resize. Listen (2 min) ...

Schnittke and Shostakovich push the NSO to the peak of its powers. Violinist Lisa Batiashvili joined the National Symphony Orchestra for a powerful two--piece program of works by the Russian ...

At a fraught contemporary moment, the BSO performed Shostakovich’s “Babi Yar” on Thursday night in Symphony Hall, concluding its traversal of the composer’s complete symphonies.

Dmitri Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on September 25, 1906. ... Both were traditionalists, and gave Shostakovich a thorough grounding in harmony.

The interweaving of music and biography has been a regular component of "Keeping Score" ever since Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony introduced this lively multimedia project in ...

Review: In thrilling Shostakovich, CSO music director designate Klaus Mäkelä shows 2027 can’t come soon enough ... at its apex, has the soloist sing in harmony with their cello.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s program featuring Lutoslawski’s Cello Concerto and Shostakovich’s hourlong Symphony No. 11may have seemed daunting to some listeners but proved to be ...

On April 11 at Boston’s Symphony Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s second concert of the “Decoding Shostakovich” series opened with a simple, devastating dedication. “To anyone who ...

He will be conducting Yo-Yo Ma through both of Shostakovich’s cello concertos at Symphony Hall through Oct. 15. (Photo Aram Boghosian) By Jed Gottlieb. UPDATED: October 13, 2023 at 3:39 PM EDT.

Shostakovich’s bawdy humour and chilling fatalism were there in his music from the very start and never went away; the unlikeliness of that combination remains one of his music’s most appealing ...

He deserved it. For Shostakovich’s Op. 99 is a composition that abandons the brooding effects, dark colors and heavy textures of traditional Russian orchestral music and his own brassy idiom for ...