The mystery of whether it's fake or not continues: we've spoken to pro bass players with differing views. Here's the video we're talking about Arranged and performed by Lev Weksler, then uploaded in ...
Said to have been caused by careless builders, a fire at Rimsky-Korsakov’s estate has done untold damage, destroying thousands of artefacts belonging to the 19th-century Russian composer. This weekend ...
As symphonic openings go, this has to be one of the subtlest and most mysterious, a pizzicato passcaglia theme emerging imperceptibly on double bass. You’re reminded of the passacaglia from Britten’s ...
A week ago I found it hard to deal with pain, and went to hospital, which fixed things up pretty well after three days. Those three days included the implosion of the Turnbull Government, and all that ...
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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 ...
London's Time Zone Theatre last year announced a crowd funding campaign to bring their interpretation of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Mozart&Salieri to UK theaters. The plans for the fresh ...
This Russian-inspired concert has Rimsky-Korsakov’s dance-filled suite from his opera Mlada, Rachmaninov’s ebullient early piano concerto, a trio of colourful tone-poems by Lyadov and Glazunov’s ...