Exploring the Soviet-Russian composer’s chamber works.

Take out the high courts and bring in the dancing elephants: here are some of the strangest opera plots that have ever been put to paper.

Pianist Yuja Wang joins the Oslo Philharmonic and its Chief Conductor Klaus Mäkelä for a program of 20th-century masterpieces by Ravel and Shostakovich.

A journey from brooding despair to rousing triumph, Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony rescued him from the grips of official Soviet disfavor.

Some classics from the New York Philharmonic’s storied discography.

Another packed summer of live music awaits.

David Afkham returns to the CSO podium to lead Debussy, Ravel, and Shostakovich.

We visit Lyadov’s Enchanted Lake and Swan Lake of Tchaikovsky before hearing the Symphony No. 10 by Dmitri Shostakovich. Alan Gilbert conducts.

Star pianist Stephen Hough takes the stage to perform Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto.

Vladimir Jurowski conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8.

As one of the very few women music directors of a major US opera company, Yankovskaya is respected for her leadership, artistic vision, as well as her inventive programming.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs works by Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and Moussa.

The dynamic ensemble performs works by Haydn, Bach, and Shostakovich as well as their crowd-pleasing arrangements of folk music.

Star violinist Augustin Hadelich makes a return to the festival to play Prokofiev’s 2nd Violin Concerto.

Showcasing one of today’s most acclaimed pianists in works by Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich.

A song cycle and a piano quintet.

Gustavo Gimeno, the music director designate of Teatro Real leads the LA Phil and guest pianist Javier Perianes in music by Francisco Coll García, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

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The Dover Quartet plays Mozart’s “Dissonance Quartet” – String Quartet in C Major, K. 465. Then later, it’s the Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 67 by Dmitri Shostakovich, performed by Nicolas Namoradze, John Storgårds and Peter Stumpf.

Music by Dmitri Shostakovich and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Manfred Honeck leads the CSO with a US Premiere of Auerbach’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (a CSO co-commission) featuring Gautier Capuçon.

Three mainstage operas, three additional special events, and all six titles are Chicago premieres.

Not only are these composers’ musical works an inspiration, but their words are, too! Here are some of the most beautiful insights you’ll read all day.

This ain’t your average classical music dance playlist: dance along to new pieces, old grooves, treasured tangos, and winsome waltzes.