Dmitri Shostakovich in 1972(Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive) Dmitri Shostakovich's career was plagued by censorship and heartbreak. His string quartets are perhaps his most intimate, interior ...

Ravinia had its “Million-Dollar Trio” in 1950 when Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky and Artur Rubinstein joined forces to play chamber music there. By the same token, Symphony Center on Saturday ...

Dmitri Shostakovich's 15 string quartets trace a creative path from youthful vigor to dread of death, tensely combining along the way pathos with caustic comedy, folk melodies with modern angularities ...

The Alexander String Quartet will complete its two-year survey of the complete cycle of the 15 string quartets composed by Russian/Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich in the next few months, with ...

Anyone who enjoyed the first volume of the Cuarteto Casals’ Shostakovich is unlikely to be disappointed by the second, which has just as much textural transparency, agility, sensitivity and drama.

Da Camera of Houston presents the first two programs in an extended concert-series in which the Jerusalem String Quartet will perform all 15 of the Quartets by Russia’s most important composer of the ...

Dmitri Shostakovich gives us the carnival and the graveyard, the cabaret and the padded cell, often at the same time. Just as we sink into beauty, he tells a joke. Just as we start to chuckle, he ...

Where: Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Building, University of Victoria When: Feb. 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9. All concerts at 8 p.m. Pre-concert talks at 7 p.m. Tickets: $25 single ticket or $100 for ...

Polish-born composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (also spelled Vaynberg) was of Jewish decent, and the only immediate member of his family to get out of Poland alive, following the Nazi occupation of 1939.

Has the Borodin Quartet inherited a musical style through its DNA? There have been many changes to the membership of the Quartet since it was founded 70 years ago, but its close association with ...