The technical difficulties of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 are formidable. But they’re outweighed by the interpretive ones. Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg met both challenges in a masterly ...

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All Yuja Wang performances are astonishing, but some are more astonishing than others. Wang made one of her frequent visits to Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday, Sept. 29, to give a blazing, ...

The choice of Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No.1 was, for Russia-born Igor Yuzefovich, a bold but natural call. He has obvious affection for the music. The work is dedicated to the great Russian ...

In his past Bay Area appearances, German violinist Christian Tetzlaff has always impressed as an artist of rare virtuosity and fearless commitment. Yet even those of us who place him among the top ...

Today’s Video of the Day is a performance of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No.1 by Hyeyoon Park. Park says: ‘These works speak to the resilience of human beings when confronted with the unthinkable.

One of the more enterprising discs of the Shostakovich centenary year unites three substantial works written in 1946: Shostakovich’s Third String Quartet (played trenchantly in the Rudolf Barshai ...

One of music’s joys is the way that it can spark mental images that have little to do with what you’re actually hearing. Last weekend, for instance, I was listening to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Violin ...

As he usually does once or twice a year, Alabama Symphony Music Director Justin Brown will be playing two roles at MasterWorks concerts Friday and Saturday. In addition to conducting the four works on ...