After a highly successful debut at the head of the OBC season, conducting Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11, the Russian conductor Vassily Sinaisky visits us again, this time with the Seventh, the ...

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra has quietly announced a complete change in the program for the May 10-12 performances at its newly renovated Geffen Hall at the city’s Lincoln Center arts complex.

It's possible that Shostakovich, who worked at the Leningrad conservatoire, had started work on the symphony before the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, but he began to work on it ...

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson, Candlewick Press, 464 pages. $25.99. Many composers’ music provides uncomplicated listening ...

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The Seventh Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich is combat reporting from one of the most devastating events in modern times. On June 22, 1941, Hitler's army invaded the Soviet Union. By late August the ...

On a visit to Moscow to see his grandparents in 1941, 6-year-old Alfred Schnittke registered at a music school but never did receive an education there. War broke out in June of that year, when ...

Before I began writing this review I put Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony on my CD player. This symphony, known as the Leningrad Symphony, is the inspiration for a new and wonderful history by M ...

In the summer of 1942, Leningrad was starving. It had been under siege and bombardment by German forces for nearly a year. And yet an orchestra managed to perform a new symphony by the composer Dmitri ...

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Bancroft perform two works by Dmitri Shostakovich — his 7th Symphony, 'Leningrad', and the 1st Violin Concerto with Clara-Jumi Kang. Show more To mark 50 ...