Often hailed as the birth of the Romantic era, Beethoven’s heroic Symphony No. 3 changed music forever. Originally inspired by Napoleon, Beethoven famously scratched out the dedication to the French ...

Symphony No. 1 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Vasily Petrenko, Conductor Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Symphony No. 3, 'The First of May' Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Dmitri ...

The final volume of symphonies was released Oct. 20. It will eventually be part of a massive box set documenting the entire Shostakovich venture. Andris Nelsons was still in his first season as music ...

The German ensemble performed Beethoven, Schumann, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich works over two nights at the Hong Kong ...

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 ...

Kristiina Poska conducts the Norwegian Radio Orchestra in Sibelius' two last symphonies. In between, Christian Ihle Hadland performs Shostakovich's energetic Concerto for Piano and Trumpet with the ...

Symphony No. 1 Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Mark Wigglesworth, Conductor Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Symphony No. 2, 'To October' Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Mark ...