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Prepare to trek through the desert landscape of Central Asia on Classical 91.7 this Thursday as Sir Georg Solti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a program rich in Russian themes, including ...

Russia's contribution to the arts over the past couple of centuries has been extraordinary and unparalleled. Russian authors are among the greatest writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Russia is ...

Shostakovich’s Ninth Quartet dates from 1964 and has the same sombre mood as the more famous Eighth that precedes it. But there is more irony here – folk tunes and nursery rhymes peer out through the ...

May 12 at 8 and May 13 at 3: Tradition is never far away at the barge. This week brings string quartets, as the violinist Mark Peskanov, Bargemusic’s director, joins three colleagues to play quartets ...

The thunderstorm that provided accompaniment to the final minutes of the Borodin Quartet’s concert Tuesday night at Coral Gables Congregational Church could have put out the lights and still would not ...

For six decades, this treasured ensemble has been Russia’s calling card to the chamber-music world. Under the auspices of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, it performs string quartets by ...

Klein, unable to take up a scholarship at London's Royal Academy of Music which would have saved his life, left no orchestral music behind when he died in Auschwitz at the age of 25; Czech-born French ...