Dmitri Shostakovich
LPO/Kremer/Roslavets/Boreyko review – an evening of raw and uncompromising music
The darkness of Shostakovich’s Symphony No 13 and Schoenberg’s A Survivor From Warsaw had a haunting modern resonance
Erica Jeal
28, Nov, 2024 @4:44 PM
Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos 1-5 album review – complete survey opens with bite and promise
The Spanish quartet are recording all 15 of Shostakovich’s string quartets, this opening volume features the first five, all given refined performances
Andrew Clements
31, Oct, 2024 @5:20 PM
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4, 5 and 6 album review – Klaus Mäkelä takes on history
The Finnish conductor exerts control over these musically very different but culturally significant works, revelling in wildness, perfection and joyful intensity
Andrew Clements
08, Aug, 2024 @1:36 PM
Rock on, Shostakovich, Handel, Ravel: lives of great composers hit the screens
Torment, rebellion and tragedy are major themes as a rash of new biopics highlight the achievements and challenges of the musically gifted
Dalya Alberge
02, Jun, 2024 @12:00 PM
Shostakovich: Symphonies 2, 3, 12 and 13 album review – Nelsons ends his cycle as convincingly as it began
Although for some of these performances revolutionary zeal is replaced by routine, the 13th stands apart
Andrew Clements
19, Oct, 2023 @3:30 PM
Silencing Russian music plays into Putin’s hands | Letters
Letters: Readers on the Ukrainian culture minister’s call for a boycott of Russian culture, in protest at the invasion of Ukraine
09, Dec, 2022 @5:34 PM
Cherry Town, Moscow review – Shostakovich’s operetta becomes a zany romp but outstays its welcome
Welsh National Youth Opera attack the subversive satire with verve and enthusiasm, maximising the theatricality and cheerfully taking the Mikhail out of it all
Rian Evans
11, Oct, 2022 @7:12 AM
Prom 25: BBCPhil/Storgårds/Eyck review – Aho’s theremin casts a spell
Carolina Eyck was mesmerising in Kalevi Aho’s theremin concerto, while Kaija Saariaho’s Vista and Shostakovich’s 15th symphony were superbly played by the BBC Philharmonic
Tim Ashley
05, Aug, 2022 @11:25 AM
The week in classical: Peter Grimes; Emerson Quartet; RPO/Petrenko
An all-star production of Britten’s opera thrilled; Soviet-era melancholy flowed through Shostakovich’s quartets; and the RPO rose to their game-changing new conductor
Fiona Maddocks
26, Mar, 2022 @12:30 PM
Time to face up to the fusion illusion? | Brief letters
Brief letters: No such thing as time | Cushioning the blow | Out for the count | Reclaiming San Serriffe | Marine disaster
14, Feb, 2022 @6:05 PM
The week in classical: Life, Letters & Friendship; Bluebeard’s Castle – review
The Carducci Quartet get to the heart of Shostakovich, while two very different interpretations of Bartók’s only opera enthral
Stephen Pritchard
13, Nov, 2021 @12:30 PM
On DSCH: Shostakovich and Stevenson/Igor Levit | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week
Pairing Stevenson’s Passacaglia on DSCH with Shostakovich’s equally epic 24 Preludes is a unique combination of rarity and virtuosity
Andrew Clements
09, Sep, 2021 @1:42 PM
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