by Barry Lenson | Jan 12, 2022 | Russian Music, Serrgey Prokofiev
Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1, also known as the “Classical Symphony,” is a delightful work that you should know – and that you will enjoy listening to. Since it was first performed on April 18, 1918 in Saint Petersburg with Prokofiev conducting, the work has...
by Barry Lenson | Mar 3, 2019 | Russian Music, Uncategorized
What could be new or different about a recording of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, A Night on Bald Mountain, or his atmospheric short piece Dawn on the Moscow River? These works have already been recorded by virtually all of the world’s great orchestras, from...
by Barry Lenson | Mar 16, 2017 | Great Singers, Nicolai Gedda, Russian Music, Uncategorized
Let’s start today’s post by watching Nicolai Gedda in two extraordinary performances. First, as Faust . . . And second, in a concert performance of Lenski’s aria from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin . . . The world of music lost a treasured...
by Barry Lenson | Nov 15, 2016 | Henry Purcell, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Russian Music, Sacred Music, Uncategorized
We might not always enjoy participating in history . . . but thanks to music, we can relive important events in the past I invite you to watch Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra perform Tchaikovsky’s “Festival Coronation March,” which was written for...
by Barry Lenson | Jul 25, 2016 | Choral Music, NDR Chor, Russian Music, Sacred Music, Uncategorized
We invite you to watch this video of a performance of one of Tchaikovsky’s sublime “Cherubic Hymns” Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky has rightfully earned a place on lots of “greatest” lists. He is one of the greatest ballet composers of all time, one of the greatest...
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