Vadim Repin, who appears tonight at Davies Symphony Hall as part of the San Francisco Symphony's Great Performers Series, is among the handful of brilliant younger violinists who have rediscovered the ...

Something a little different this week. Get your ears around the ferocious and concise drama of Nikolai Myaskovsky's Tenth Symphony, a truly remarkable document of early 20th century symphonic history ...

As much as I think I know about classical music I continue to be humbled by how much I don’t know. As we turn toward summer, the esoteric pick of the week is back on my radar and it brings with it a ...

Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881-1950) is a composer whose music, until very recently, counted among the lost. As Patrick Zuk remarks at the outset of this compelling biography, he was nevertheless regarded ...

Symphony No. 1 Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra Nikolay Myaskovsky, Composer Alexander Rudin, Conductor Symphony No 13 Nikolay Myaskovsky, Composer Alexander Rudin, Conductor Ural Youth Symphony ...

"Constructivist" is an adjective often flung at both Myaskovsky's Sixth Symphony and Prokofiev's Second, falling wide of the mark in each case. Prokofiev's pile-driving score dates from his enfant ...

Symphony No. 1 Russian Federation State Symphony Orchestra Evgeni Svetlanov, Conductor Nikolay Myaskovsky, Composer Symphony No 25 Nikolay Myaskovsky, Composer Evgeni Svetlanov, Conductor Russian ...

With online talks through February and March and now three concerts, a festival in the city of Yekaterinburg – Sverdlovsk, as it was known in Soviet times – is belatedly making news of a composer who ...

"What could be worse than a long symphony?" wrote the 16-year-old Prokofiev to Myaskovsky, his senior by a decade, in 1907. "To me, the ideal of a perfect size for a symphony is one that runs for 20, ...