In 1939, composer Virgil Thomson brought attention to a growing problem in classical music. Despite a dire need for the presentation of new works, orchestras around the globe clung desperately to ...
Alexander Scriabin and Nikolai Medtner, eight years his junior, both studied at the Moscow Conservatoire in the 1890s, where their fellow students included Rachmaninov; it’s Rachmaninov’s spirit, and ...
"No composer has had more scorn heaped on him or greater love bestowed." That's how The Great Soviet Encyclopedia describes the legacy of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. In his biography of ...
"No composer has had more scorn heaped on him or greater love bestowed." That's how The Great Soviet Encyclopedia describes the legacy of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. In his biography of ...
In their ongoing season of works by Rachmaninoff and his contemporaries, Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic in Rachmaninoff's Symphony no.1, plus Scriabin's Piano concerto with Igor ...
IT was surely an entirely unintended coincidence the Peter Oundjian’s successor as music director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Thomas Sondergard programmed a performance of Tchaikovsky’s ...
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