Hard on the heels of John Storgårds’s thrilling account of Shostakovich’s Eleventh Symphony with the BBC Philharmonic comes another performance I was lucky enough to experience live in December last ...

Shostakovich’s 11th Symphony here receives a performance of exceptional eloquence from the Manchester-based BBC Philharmonic under their chief guest conductor, the Finn John Storgårds. The Chandos ...

Each time I hear the opening of this symphony – in filmic terms a long slow pan across the frozen forecourt of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg – I immediately think of countless grainy ...

Gerard McBurney for Building a Library explores recordings of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony in G minor, subtitled "The Year 1905", and makes a personal recommendation. The Symphony is vividly ...

Louis Lortie carries a torch for Gabriel Fauré’s piano music, and in this CD he makes the best possible advocate for some underrated works. Fauré did not aspire to join the big league of piano ...

Linton Stephens introduces an afternoon of specially made recordings including music Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Show more Linton Stephens brings you an ...

It was 100 years ago that Dmitri Shostakovich, as a young music student at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, completed his First Symphony. He finished the work in April 1925, and did not turn 19 years ...

THERE is something compelling and harrowing in this re-issue of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony. Never has the first movement of this great symphony sounded so ominously calm. Never have I heard such ...