CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Vladimir Jurowski - photo : Roman Gontcharov, 2017, courtesy IMG Artists Vladimir Jurowski conducted the London Philharmonic Orch...

Where does Valery Gergiev get his energy ?  Two livestreams back to back from the Elbphilharmonie, both programmes hefty. Mahler Symphony...

Young Stravinsky, around the time he met Rimsky-Korsakov in 1902 Vladimir Jurowski's Stravinsky Journey with the London Philh...

Igor Stravinsky's lost Funeral Song , ( Chante funèbre ) op 5 conducted by Valery Gergiev at the Mariinsky in St Petersburg  Thi...

What have things come to, when Ivan The Terrible should now be known as " one of the same characters that inspired Eisenstein",...

Many performers get attention because their youth excites some sections of the press. But Jakub Hrůša has solid experience without attrac...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Mozart and Salieri (1897) received its first ever performance at the Royal Opera House as the highli...

Rimsky-Korsakov's Invisibe City of Kitezh is on now in Amsterdam at De Nederlandse Opera. Marc Albrecht conducts an all-Russian cast in ...

Princess of Nature and the woods, Fevronia has come to Kitezh to marry Prince Yuri. But the Tatars are about to attack the city. So Fevronia...

The historic complete recording of Rimsky-Korsakov The Golden Cockerel (Le coq d'or) is available online for a week on BBC Radio 3 This...

Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride opened at the Royal Opera House, London yesterday. Everyone knows the famous Overture, but few o...

Sobakin, Marfa, Dunyasha and Vanya Lykov are heading forth into what they think will be a glorious future.  But we know what really lies ah...

Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride is standard repertoire in Russian-speaking countries, but rarely produced in the west (though th...