Channel One war correspondent Anna Prokofieva died while performing her professional duty in the Belgorod region. This is ...

Damiano Michieletto directs a slick and frequently hilarious staging of Prokofiev's comic opera Betrothal in a Monastery.

Sergey Prokofiev died on the same day as Stalin. Apart from the final years of his life, he managed more successfully than any other great Russian composer living under the dictatorship to maintain ...

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A young pianist himself, Gigashvili had recently realized he wanted classical music "to be a part of my life," and when he ...

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Karajan’s 1968 Prokofiev Fifth is a great performance. Whenever one compares it with later versions inevitably the DG account holds its place at the top of the list. The analogue recording was ...

2. A concert also featuring music by Prokofiev. More Mikhaïl Pletnev and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Rachmaninov's concertos: Nos.3 and 4 83 min Watch the programmeMore Watch Mikhaïl ...

A showstopper for starters followed by dark depths, a quirky compilation after the interval: it’s what you might expect from Iván Fischer and his 42-year-old Budapest Festival Orchestra. All Prokofiev ...

Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev are well known to American concertgoers, Nikolay Myaskovsky (1891-1950) hardly at all. Celebrated in his earlier years as one of Russia’s greatest composers ...