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 ...
Want a mind-meltingly fast flurry of notes? You've come to the right place. Join the world's most nimble-fingered (and footed) musicians for this Rimsky-Korsakov extravaganza. Before we do anything, ...
Rachmaninoff was a world-renowned pianist who toured his whole life. From a recording he made in 1929, we hear Rachmaninoff himself play Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee. And from there, we ...
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 ...
On the surface the genre of the lullaby in art music seems to have a limited purpose. In instrumental music, particularly piano works, and in song literature, individual lullabies act as quaint ...
The Tsar’s Bride, the most popular opera by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, will reappear on the Bolshoi Theatre’s stage on February 22, ITAR-TASS reports. Conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, ...
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