New site – August 2025
dschostakovi.ch
A starting point
This site is launched on August 9, 2025, the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich’s death. These fifty years have seen an ever increasing regard for and performances of his works, as well as a transformation in understandings of his life.
The music has not changed. Thank you, inestimable Shostakovich!
This site provides links to key resources regarding Shostakovich and Twentieth-century music in general. The guiding motive is to support my own learning, with hope that this site will also be of interest to others. Wish me luck!
— Richard Greenough, Portland, Oregon, USA
Dmitri Shostakovich’s portrait, in the audience at the Bach Celebration, July 28, 1950. Photo by Roger & Renate Rössing.1
Three sets of links to get us started
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Shostakovich’s Life and Music
Principal organizations dedicated to Shostakovich’s legacy:
1. Association Internationale Dmitri Chostakovich
2. DSCH Journal
3. International Schostakowitsch Tage Gohrisch
4. Shostakovich Festival Leipzig
Lists of works:
1. DSCH Publishers
2. Boosey & Hawkes, Shostakovich main page, see the Works List on the right of the page
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Guides to Performances and Recordings
Books with Discographies:
1. Derek C. Hulme’s Dmitri Shostakovich: Catalogue, Bibliography, and Discography, Third Edition, online at the Internet Archive. Note that there is a fourth edition that is less readily available.
Review sites:
1. DSCH Journal’s reviews, by opus number
2. Gramophone reviews, search page
3. Classics Today (Shostakovich search results)
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General Music Resources
Streaming sources:
1. Bachtrack, Six of the best audio streaming platforms for classical music in 2023
2. Presto Music
3. Deutsche Gramophone Stage+
4. Idagio
5. DSO Replay, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s free replay archive
Classical music magazines:
1. Feedspot, Top 15 classical music magazines in 2025
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Quotes
So then, three cheers for a career
when it’s a career like that of
Shakespeare or Pasteur,
Newton or Tolstoy,
or Tolstoy … Lev?
Lev!
Why did they have mud slung at them?
Talent is talent, whatever name you give it.
They’re forgotten, those who hurled curses,
but we remember the ones who were cursed.
– Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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- Deutsche Fotothek, Creative Commons license, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dmitri_Shostakovich_credit_Deutsche_Fotothek_adjusted.jpg ↩︎