I’ve written about the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony before. It’s one of the masterworks of the classical repertoire, alongside ...

Shostakovich is born in St Petersburg on September 25 to Dmitrij Boleslavovich Shostakovich (1875-1922), a government inspector of weights and measures, and his wife Sofja Vasilevna (1878-1955 ...

(Shostakovich, incidentally ... Americans such as Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber and Leonard Bernstein sought to bridge the gap between popular and classical. Boulez excoriated them all, but ...

Last Friday it was the appearance of pianist Barry Douglas and Niall Keatley, both local boys made good, performing the ...