Shostakovich Archive

I am posting this with the hope that by October 15, 2020 COVID will have decline adequately so that this event will take place for our European friends: Janine Jansen plays Shostakovich Venue: Konserthuset Stockholm: …

My 14 year-old Grandson called me just now, and he told me that he is taking part in learning and performing the Trio #2 in E-Minor by Dmitry Shostakovich. For me this was a WOW …

Composed almost 20 years apart, the two violin concertos by Dmitri Shostakovich were both conceived with the great Russian violinist David Oistrakh in mind and dedicated to him. Shostakovich completed Concerto No. 1 in 1948, …

David Oistrakh was an amazing violinist. On this recording he performs the Shostakovich Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 David Oistrakh first came to the United States in 1955, and the sound that he produced …

Recently, before going to sleep, I have been listening to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, as performed by Frank Peter Zimmerman. On the CD of the Month for January 2017, the same violinist plays …