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Shostakovich may have secreted a subversive cipher beneath the surface of his life-saving Symphony No. 5. This is all the more shocking since another bad review from Stalin’s totalitarian forces ...

Shostakovich said himself of the piece: "I did depict Stalin in my 10th symphony. I wrote it right after Stalin's death and no one has yet guessed what the symphony is about. It's about Stalin and ...

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

Music by Jean Sibelius and Dmitri Shostakovich was featured in the Fort Wayne Philharmonic’s Masterworks Series concert on ...

After his next stage work, the tepid ballet The Limpid Brook, was also condemned by Pravda as being insufficiently dignified on the subject of Soviet life, Shostakovich abandoned the theatre and from ...

This summer will mark the festival's first one helmed by new artistic director and principal conductor Giancarlo Guerrero.

Now this adaptable maestro is striking sparks on disc with the Russian National Orchestra. If you’ve acquired their account of Tchaikovsky’s Third Suite (Pentatone, 5/06), you won’t need much ...