An orchestral program of Mozart’s darkest piano concerto and Shostakovich’s most complex symphony would challenge a conductor under any circumstances. Thursday night at Meyerson Symphony Center, the ...
To mark the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich's death, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform his Symphony No. 7, known as the ‘Leningrad’, a symbol of ...
Kristiina Poska conducts the Norwegian Radio Orchestra in Sibelius' two last symphonies. In between, Christian Ihle Hadland performs Shostakovich's energetic Concerto for Piano and Trumpet with the ...
Over the final four weeks of the 2024–25 Symphony Hall season (Apr. 6–May 3), Andris Nelsons caps his tenth anniversary season at Symphony Hall by revisiting the music of Dmitri Shostakovich that has ...
A greyness prevails – and it’s that uniformity of colour which detracts from some of the most original writing in the entire canon of Shostakovich symphonies. For sure the monstrous war machine which ...