Wednesday afternoon's concert from Hoddinnott Hall (live on Radio 3, and Thierry's last from our own studio) will feature Stravinsky's Symphony No 1 in E Flat Major, a work that I was unfamiliar with ...

Paul Herriott presents from the RDS, where the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and a host of Irish soloists will present a season of LIVE concert programmes.. This evening, the orchestra play ...

Even while in the Navy as a youth, Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov tried to find time to compose music and receive training whenever he could. By age 29 in 1873, he was no longer at sea but ...

On Saturday, 11 February, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra will perform works by Sergey Rachmaninoff (Rachmaninov) and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Rachmaninoff's piano concerto no.3 (often referred to as ...

If Cecil B. DeMille had taken it into his head to create a big-budget extravaganza on Russian-pagan themes with a score by Wagner and a host of visual and sound effects, the result might be something ...

To open this program, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA welcomes Spanish harpist Cristina Montes Mateo. She is featured in a challenging 20th-century piece, the “Concerto Capriccio” by the Catalan ...

Storytellers of the Middle East have been retelling the tales of Sinbad and Aladdin. But according to legend, the first was a young bride named... Rimsky-Korsakov Lets the Symphony Tell the Story ...

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 ...

Hear two selections from 'Scheherazade' conducted by Marin Alsop's mentor, Leonard Bernstein (leading the New York Philharmonic in 1959). For centuries, composers have tried to spin tales in music. My ...