Listen to whole works from the BBC Proms 2017recorded for the BBC's binaural experiment.

He writes his Symphony no 12 'To the memory of Lenin ... He produces his String Quartet no. 11. Shostakovich is elected as an honorary member to the French Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Two of Richard Strauss’s late 19th-century gems, "Don Juan" and "Till Eulenspielgel’s Merry Pranks" were paraded with party ...

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, one of the mainstays of the twentieth-century orchestral repertory, ends with an unapologetic display of musical bombast. The coda consists of thirty-five ...

Symphonies Nos 9, 10 and 11 created little interest, No 12 (dedicated to the memory of Lenin) a little more, but with his Symphony No 13, Shostakovich again met with official criticism, this time from ...

Kentridge’s film played over Shostakovich’s 10th symphony at a New York Philharmonic concert led by Keri-Lynn Wilson.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony was considered so shameful that it was banned in his home country for eight years. It was widely criticized in the Soviet Union for its “unrelieved gloom ...