The Beethoven Quartet’s Unique Relationship with Shostakovich
By Sasha Margolis | From the November-December 2020 issue of Strings magazine Seldom has a composer been more closely connected with a particular group of p... Read More...
Shostakovich
Review: A Prismatic Program from the Danish String Quartet
This is a review of a performance by the Danish String Quartet on November 7, 2019; Meany Center for the Performing Arts, University of Washington, Seattle.
Cellist Julian Schwarz on Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1
By Laurence Vittes
Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107, was composed in 1959 for his friend Mstislav Rostropovich, who commit... Read More...
Review: Seattle Symphony’s Shostakovich Concerto Festival
Music for Troubled Times
By Thomas May
The Seattle Symphony just offered a rare chance to hear all six of Dmitri Shostakovich's solo instrumental concerto... Read More...