The combined forces of the Gewandhaus and Boston Symphony unite under Andris Nelsons for a searing Leningrad Symphony, while ...

The San Diego Symphony concert on Friday, May 16, was a return to the form that I have come to expect from that institution. When i go to a symphonic concert, I expect to be inspired, to be ...

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 ...

The concert opened with the iconic Yellow River Piano Concerto, a piece that has long symbolized Chinese resilience.

This was (quite literally) dangerous music. After 10 rehearsals with the Leningrad Philharmonic, Shostakovich abruptly withdrew the symphony from its premiere, citing incompatibility with his ...

Concerts continued to be performed at Leningrad's famous Philharmonic Hall, including a recital of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Amidst the extremely cold ...

The Seventh Symphony of Russian musician Dmitri Shostakovich, known as the «Leningrad Symphony», was performed on 9 July 1944 in Johannesburg and later in September that year in Cape Town.

Out of his fear and inner turmoil came the Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, which premiered in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) on November 21, 1937. The audience reaction was immediate and emotional ...