Russian ensemble celebrate 80 years of music making in Hong Kong with polished performance of quartets by Beethoven, Borodin, Shostakovich.

The evening concluded with Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 1 in F minor, a youthful firecracker laced with sardonic wit and moments of striking pathos. Storgårds leaned into the composer’s theatrical ...

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 composers.

Go: "Fred Staloff: Origins of a Modernist" and "Carol Nussbaum: Harmony, Balance & Symmetry," through Sunday, June 1, Monmouth Museum, 765 Newman Springs Road, Brookdale Community College campus ...

Completed in March 1943, the Sonata is marked, even more than usual for Shostakovich, by a tone of despair and suffering. When he finished the score, the German invasion of two years before was only ...

BSO triumphs with Shostakovich’s 6th Symphony One of the composer’s most perplexing creations, performed with works by Stravinsky and Vrebalov, is rendered with uncommon depth and power.

During the orchestra’s two-night visit to New York, the Boston players, led by their music director Andris Nelsons, gave bravura performances of Shostakovich — his 11th and 15th symphonies, as ...

Dmitri Shostakovich in 1942 One such program was presented by the New York Philharmonic two weeks ago. It featured Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, considered by most—critics and listeners alike ...

The second Shostakovich piece of the night, Symphony No. 12, is everything we could have hoped for, from the opening strains of the deeper strings delivering the theme that is then picked up in ...

Such newer Harmony remotes as the Harmony One, Harmony Elite, and the Harmony Companion aren’t on the list. But the news that Logitech is dropping support for first-generation Harmony remotes ...

The Sistema goal is to help children in high deprivation neighbourhoods reach their full potential by learning teamwork, harmony and ensemble playing. Since professional musician and El Sistema ...

Following an all-Shostakovich program with Symphonies No. 6 and No. 11 (The Year 1905) on April 10, Nelsons pairs performances of the symphonies with a concerto performance by acclaimed soloists ...