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Joana Carneiro, the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center and music by Frank, Shostakovich, Ravel and Prokofiev fused into something that transcended them all.

Thomas Søndergård conducts thrilling Shostakovich to close to the RSNO Season: lively Festive Overture, introspective Second Cello Concerto  with Daniel Müller-Schott, and an epic Eleventh Symphony.

Another day, another impeccable concert by Ensemble 360 and friends at this year’s Sheffield Chamber Music Festival.

A haunting account of Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto is paired with a vivid rendition of his Eleventh Symphony.

Though a perfect concert is hard to define, you know when you’ve attended one – and Beethoven and Shostakovich from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra provide the proof.

Horton and Gavrić take in swooning late Romanticism and brittle Soviet-era irony before unleashing the power of the Russian spring

Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony is a massive and aptly complicated work to which William Kentridge’s film adds contextual layers of stop-motion animation and vintage footage in a surreal nightmare of tyranny.