Shostakovich is remembered by contemporaries who were interviewed many decades later as a student of single-minded ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Throughout Shostakovich’s lifetime the most familiar recordings of his symphonies were made by Soviet ...

An attractive coupling of early and late works that brings together three generations of the Shostakovich family–composer Dmitri; his son, conductor Maxim; and his grandson, pianist Dmitri ...

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1, 5 and 7 (“Leningrad”); Prelude in E-flat minor Philadelphia Orchestra, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, conductor (Pearl, 2-CD set). It was Leopold Stokowski ...

Has the Borodin Quartet inherited a musical style through its DNA? There have been many changes to the membership of the Quartet since it was founded 70 years ago, but its close association with ...

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Shostakovich, Violin Concertos 1 & 2, review: Alina Ibragimova brings steely purity to a taxing masterpiece On this new recording, Vladimir Jurowski conducts Alina Ibragimova and the State Symphony ...