After the BBC Symphony’s scorching Tenth under Elim Chan last weekend, along comes the Fifth, courtesy of starry international guests the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov on the latest leg of a ...

The ovation that greeted the 1937 premiere of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony lasted over an hour – perhaps fuelled by its agonisingly intense slow movement and the triumphal ending – though its deeper ...

His weakness, however, allows him to write articles and letters in greater volume and to confer extensively with his generals Budyonny and Kolenko. At 45 years old, he is a man possessed by burning ...

The second concert in the Czech Philharmonic’s residency boasts Mozart's vivacious concerto written for (and tonight performed by) two siblings alongside Mahler's Symphony No 5. Mozart’s ebullient ...