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 ...

The title "Mlada" may be obscure, but many of the piece's musical and dramatic elements are apt to be familiar to listeners. Rimsky-Korsakov's extravagantly fanciful 1892 opera, which forms the climax ...

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 ...

Watch as Elim Chan conducts Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade” as part of her NY Phil debut on March 7, 2024, featuring NY Phil Concertmaster Frank Huang. The work was also on the program when Chan ...

Some of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's works never saw the light of day in his lifetime. The Quintet in B-flat for Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, and Piano is one of them. It was composed in 1876, but not ...

Daniel Bruce, beginning his second season as music director of the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, felt the 40-member community orchestra wanted a really substantial program — as did its audience. “And ...

‘Amadeus,” the 1984 eight Academy Award-winning Miloš Forman film, didn’t originate the idea that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was poisoned by his mediocre colleague Antonio Salieri, nor the 1979 Tony ...

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 ...

(La) Princesse lointaine, Movements: Prelude North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Stanislav Kochanovsky, Conductor Capriccio espagnol North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Stanislav ...

Valery Gergiev’s Kirov recordings of Rimsky-Korsakov operas for Philips in the 1990s did much to restore the composer’s reputation internationally as a serious operatic force. It’s a great shame that ...

Last week, Eric Simpson and I did a podcast, discussing the upcoming music season. Or, I should say, the second half of the season—the 2015–16 classical-music season in New York. I think of a music ...

FORT WORTH — Both the Fort Worth and Dallas symphony orchestras paired related works on concerts this week. Following the DSO’s Austro-German program, reviewed separately, the FWSO on Friday presented ...