Major orchestras in the US and around the world need little excuse to program the symphonic music of Soviet composer Dmitri ...

A child accused. Everyone left to answer.

His Second Symphony ... only film scores and patriotic music until after Stalin’s death in 1953. Symphonies Nos 9, 10 and 11 created little interest, No 12 (dedicated to the memory of Lenin) a little ...

The solo violin passages that pepper the score, a clear echo of Rimsky ... gave a chilling account of Dimitri Shostakovich's Symphony no. 5. Not long into the opening Moderato, it was clear ...

The two-minute rest for the soloist at the beginning of the Brahms Violin Concerto is no idle wait. Battle is imminent. Journeying to the sunny theme of the opening movement, the violinist must first ...

Springfield Symphony Orchestra concerts devoted to one piece are rare. Conductor and music director Peter Stafford Wilson didn’t hesitate to schedule one this season with Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No.