An orchestral program of Mozart’s darkest piano concerto and Shostakovich’s most complex symphony would challenge a conductor under any circumstances. Thursday night at Meyerson Symphony Center, the ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Andris Nelsons, will return to Europe in May 2025 with an all-Shostakovich repertoire commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of the great ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

Over the final four weeks of the 2024–25 Symphony Hall season (Apr. 6–May 3), Andris Nelsons caps his tenth anniversary season at Symphony Hall by revisiting the music of Dmitri Shostakovich that has ...