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 ...

Following his death, the government of the USSR issued the following summary of Shostakovich’s work ... professorship at the Moscow Conservatory and wrote only film scores and patriotic music until ...

In this update of Disney's masterpiece film mixture of animation and music ... "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" set to Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2. Then a goofy flamingo causes havoc ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.