On Jan. 28, 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich woke up to read a sternly worded condemnation of his music in the official Soviet newspaper, Pravda. Never mind that the work in question (his opera “Lady Macbeth ...

Only a handful of composers in the 20th century reached the kind of artistic heights that measured greatness in previous eras — creating undisputed masterworks in genre after genre, gaining the ...

The major success of Andris Nelsons’ still brief career as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s music director must be his advocacy of the orchestral music of Dmitri Shostakovich. Certainly no BSO ...

BOSTON - Earlier this month, the Boston Symphony Orchestra won a Grammy award for the second year in a row for its live recording of Dmitri Shostakovich's symphonies. So far, the orchestra has ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons announced this week a new partnership with the Deutsche Grammophon record label. In the small world of classical music, that’s reasonably big news. It ...

M.T. Anderson’s new book, “Symphony for the City of the Dead,” reveals how a Soviet composer figured into the Allies’ unity against Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler. But the book is a revelation in another ...

Join the National Repertory Orchestra, led by Emmy-award winning conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya, for this performance featuring two of the most revered works in the repertoire. Maestro Harth-Bedoya is ...

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.