Dmitri Shostakovich composed over 30 film scores ... Hear why Shostakovich’s film music continues to captivate audiences on Reel Music, tonight at 9 on WSHU.

Nobody is better suited to undertake such a challenge than Valery Gergiev and his Mariinsky Orchestra Over a period of a year all 15 Symphonies and 6 Concertos have been recorded at Salle Pleyel ...

Features extracts from Béla Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1936), Carl Orff - Carmina Burana, Dmitri Shostakovich - 7th symphony. This short film is from the BBC series ...

but was still dismissed from his professorship at the Moscow Conservatory and wrote only film scores and patriotic music until after Stalin’s death in 1953. Symphonies Nos 9, 10 and 11 created little ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Some composers can be relied on for a pithy quote. Ask Pierre Boulez his thoughts about the music of Dmitri ...

In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich's death in 2015, filmmaker Reiner Moritz produced his documentary Dmitri Shostakovich, A Man of Many Faces. With British actor John ...

Lemn Sissay investigates what it was like writing music under Stalin's oppressive regime. Shostakovich was a 20th Century Russian composer and pianist, who spent most of his career working under ...

Besides Shostakovich, who is acting as chairman, the Russian delegation includes composers Dmitri Kabalevsky, Tikhon Khrennikov, Konstantin Dankevich, Fikret Amirov, and music critic Boris Yarutovsky.

After the ceremony, the Novaya Rossiya (New Russia) symphony orchestra is expected to give a concert of music for film. The Yuri Bashmet charity foundation established the Shostakovich prize in 1994.