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

(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 ...