The world is marking the centenary of the birth of Dmitri Shostakovich, the Russian composer described by many critics as the greatest of the 20th Century. Dmitri Shostakovich died in 1975 Born in St ...

WHEN PAAVO JÄRVI CONDUCTED two rarely performed Shostakovich cantatas in Tallinn, Estonia, three years ago, an outcry in the media forced him to hire a bodyguard. This episode highlighted both the ...

It was 100 years ago that Dmitri Shostakovich, as a young music student at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, completed his First Symphony. He finished the work in April 1925, and did not turn 19 years ...

When there’s a final reckoning of Andris Nelsons’ tenure as artistic head of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his performances and recordings of Dmitri Shostakovich's music will certainly ride high on ...

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, one of the mainstays of the twentieth-century orchestral repertory, ends with an unapologetic display of musical bombast. The coda consists of thirty-five ...

Forty years after the death of Dmitri Shostakovich, Clemency Burton-Hill looks back at his difficult career in the USSR – and some surprising facts you might not know. On 9 August it will be 40 years ...

25 September 2006 marks the centenary of Dmitri Shostakovich's birth. The great Russian composer, who died on 9 August 1975, produced his First Symphony at the age of 19, taught at the Moscow and ...

Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death. By A.J. Goldmann Reporting ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Some content could not load. Check your internet connection or browser settings. This year marks 50 years since ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The 1934 opera, revived this season at the Metropolitan Opera, stoked the ire of the Soviet state, or so the story goes. But archives tell a more ...

Stephen Johnson, who has been diagnosed with serious clinical depression, claims that the music of Shostakovich has helped him to survive. Show more Presenter Stephen Johnson was diagnosed with ...