For me, the two piano concertos are not the most important music by Shostakovich. Those would probably be some of the quartets and Symphony No 14 – and even they are less important than the Second ...

The sight of a new YouTube video put a smile on my face: the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2, played by Yuja Wang, with the London Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas. The performance ...

Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto was written for his son Maxim's nineteenth birthday. The work was written to be accesible for developing young pianists, and consequently Maxim premiered the work ...

Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto turned 60 last year. The age matters, because it's often described as the last piano concerto to have entered the general orchestral repertoire. Shostakovich wrote ...

The first time Natasha Paremski performed the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, it was under the direction of the composer's son, pianist and conductor Maxim Shostakovich. ...

Cheerful, delightful, light-hearted - and yes fun, is how the concert programme notes described Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto. It was just that - and in dollops - under the hands of Romanian ...

From the J.S. Bach keyboard works of the Baroque era to Bartók’s note-splitting masterpiece of the 20th century, here are some of the greatest piano concertos ever to have been written. Piano ...

Pianist and composer Yshani Perinpanayagam chooses her favourite recording of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2. Performances at the keyboard include Alexander Melnikov, Cristina Ortiz, and ...