Live, Video: Kritiken zu klassischen Konzerten, Opern, Ballett und Tanz finden | Alexander Nevsky, Op.78

Albéniz, Saint-Saëns y Prokofiev componen un programa sugerente en el que los solistas Joshua Bell y María José Montiel brillaron en sus respectivos papeles.

A concerto was the sandwich, and a very fine one too, but no overture and no symphony: who else would have married Skalkottas and Prokofiev with Mozart's last piano concerto?

Andrew Litton se puso al frente de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia y la Sociedad Coral de Bilbao para interpretar Alexander Nevsky de Sergei Prokofiev.

Intended to signify the contribution of Russian music to the Western canon, the Royal Choral Society gave admirable performances of two major choral works, rarely heard in Winchester Cathedral.

After a stirring Marseillaise, a sombre mood hung over the first half of this Proms season opener, with Sol Gabetta's lyrical, intimate Elgar. 

Andris Nelsons and Boston Symphony Orchestra concludes their three concert series at Carnegie Hall with works by two Russian composers. 

The opening concert of the 2013 Edinburgh International Festival was a Scottish-Russian collaboration. The RSNO, the home team on home turf, featured two Russian soloists, all under the baton (or, more accurately, the open hands) of Valery Gergiev at Usher Hall.

One of the strange things about classical music is that we often hear pieces played without their original context. Ballet music is often performed as simply orchestral music, and many composers have made suites out of ballet or film music in order to make this even easier.

An 'immense glow and sumptuousness' were the words that Richard Strauss, aged just twenty-four, chose to describe the sound at the première of his tone poem, Don Juan, in 1889. 122 years later another young conductor found similar qualities with his orchestra.