2 Esa-Pekka Salonen to Lead Scriabin's PROMETHEUS, POEM OF FIRE with LA Phil As the New York Times observes, since its inception nearly three decades ago, "the Bard Music Festival has managed more ...

Rimsky-Korsakov’s "Scheherazade" draws inspiration from "Arabian Nights," also known as "One Thousand and One Nights," which ...

Unless you’re a world expert in Russian opera, you’re unlikely to have stumbled across either of the one-act operas by Rimsky-Korsakov that make up the fine double bill on offer from Island City Opera ...

In its full nationalistic stride, the Soviet Union last week got around to honoring the man who did more than any other to make Russian music Russian—genial, bush-bearded Nikolai Andreievich ...

Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin is an exciting weekday program that delves into a wide assortment of topics in classical music. Each weekly series builds off a single theme ranging from composer ...

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Chopin’s solo piano études helped push the genre into uncharted territory. He would have practiced examples by Czerny and Clementi in his youth, but his own Op. 10 and Op. 25 sets make far more ...

As symphonic openings go, this has to be one of the subtlest and most mysterious, a pizzicato passcaglia theme emerging imperceptibly on double bass. You’re reminded of the passacaglia from Britten’s ...

The Sultan Schahriar, convinced that all women are unfaithful, vowed to kill each of his wives after the first night of marriage. But one of those wives — the Sultana Scheherazade — kept herself alive ...

In December 1917, with Revolutionary Russia descending into civil war, pianist, conductor and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) boarded a train from Petrograd’s (now St. Petersburg’s) Finland ...