Ginastera’s piece is more angular and modernist than the group’s reworkings of Bach, Copland, Janácek and Mussorgsky, but it ...

A strange, sparse section, a nocturne redolent of empty streets, leads us back into the initial piano theme. There’s no let up into the Third Impression, with its synth fanfares ushering in ...

A Child of Our Time, Glasshouse, Gateshead  ★★★★★ When professional orchestras and choirs ...

McCarthy found the craggy nobility of Ravel’s great work as well its nostalgic tenderness, and for an encore played Skryabin’s well-known Nocturne for the Left ... For a moment, we could have been in ...

For educational value added, the concert was narrated by the distinguished musicologist and Ives authority J. Peter ...

Her choice of repertory has been fairly conservative over the years, with staples in the concerto and solo genres by Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Tchaikovsky ... Leonskaja's most popular songs include ...

But those who invite her know that she plays at best in a perfectible way – Mäkelä held her in an iron grip during a decent Tchaikovsky First – but ... well with Feodor Akimenko's Angel, a ...

Tchaikovsky's father was a successful mining engineer while his mother was the artistic, sensitive one, French by birth, and a good linguist. Pyotr was the second of her six children. He had a good ...

Haydn, Schumann, Bruckner, and Sibelius all wrote grand symphonies in E-flat major. It is the key of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, certainly Russia’s greatest victory music, and of John Philip Sousa’s ...