The composer himself never matched the joy, optimism and boldness of his first teenage symphony, as the chill of Stalinism settled on his music ...

Sonata for Piano No. 1 Peter Donohoe, Piano Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings David Curtis, Conductor Orchestra of the Swan Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Peter ...

Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy is both the headliner and the best thing this new disc of Shostakovich’s chamber music has going for it. The programming is canny, encompassing the composer’s early and too ...

A madcap, heart-on-sleeve creation, Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto offers its two soloists a whole host of challenges, ...

The first time Natasha Paremski performed the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, it was under the direction of the composer's son, pianist and conductor Maxim Shostakovich. ...

As if to avoid shining too much limelight on the individual – hard in a concerto, by its show-off nature, but no doubt advisable in Soviet years – Shostakovich gives piano and orchestra well-balanced ...

Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto turned 60 last year. The age matters, because it's often described as the last piano concerto to have entered the general orchestral repertoire. Shostakovich wrote ...

Boris Giltburg has all the fierce humour the music demands and has made his own arrangement of the String Quartet No.8 Shostakovich: Piano Concertos — ‘well-recorded performances’ on x (opens in a new ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Valery Gergiev, Conductor, Bass Denis Matsuev, Piano Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5 ...

It had to happen. Following his superb set of Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues two years ago, Alexander Melnikov has turned to the composer's piano concertos. The Russian pianist's own liner notes ...

It is half a century since Vladimir Ashkenazy played Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No.2 for the composer in his apartment. Neither the music nor the performance has lost its immediacy since then. Composed ...