In the 50th anniversary year of Shostakovich's death, the Czech Philharmonic bring two of the composer's greatest works to ...

Shostakovich is born in St Petersburg on September 25 to Dmitrij Boleslavovich Shostakovich (1875-1922), a government inspector of weights and measures, and his wife Sofja Vasilevna (1878-1955 ...

Last Friday it was the appearance of pianist Barry Douglas and Niall Keatley, both local boys made good, performing the ...

Listen to the whole of Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. John Wilson with gems of Sinatra and Bernstein John Wilson founded his own orchestra, surprisingly enough ...