To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Dmitri Shostakovich, Leipzig's Gewandhaus Orchestra has devoted a festival to the composer in which almost all his works will be performed. The highlight ...

For this titanic wartime work, the San Diego Symphony pulled out all stops, delivering one of the year's most memorable ...

As part of the Southbank Centre's Multitudes festival, Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony is given a stunning visual direction by Kirill Serebrennikov to match the RPO's gripping playing.

It was first produced in 1934 in Leningrad and Moscow. There were almost 200 performances of the opera by the end of 1936. The microfilmed score of the 7th symphony was smuggled out of Russia ...

Leningrad (now St Petersburg) was the home city of composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and his Seventh Symphony was named in honour of the besieged city. The music is Shostakovich at his most triumphant ...

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