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 ...
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 ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. As the New York Times observes, since its inception nearly three decades ago, "the ...
The January 2015 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features Rimsky-Korsakov’s work based on Scheherazade’s stories from One Thousand and One Arabian ...
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 ...
Say you wanted to set up a tournament bracket in which classical composers are pitted against one another in a battle over who gets the most out of an orchestra in their compositions and arrangements.
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 ...
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 ...
From Bridge Records comes an album called Piano Protagonists: Music for Piano and Orchestra. (I still call them “albums,” although that term is perhaps obsolete. It is certainly musty.) The ...
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