The importance of Shostakovich's music means that it features regularly in CD Review's Building a Library feature. This page presents a sequence of Building a Library Bach features dating back to ...

Shostakovich, when he apologised for his errors, said he would try to do better and would henceforth write, even though he thought he had been, music that fell in line with ‘socialist realism’. After ...

Shostakovich is born in St Petersburg on September 25 to Dmitrij Boleslavovich Shostakovich (1875-1922), a government inspector of weights and measures, and his wife Sofja Vasilevna (1878-1955 ...