Beijing venue's acoustics bring out Hong Kong Philharmonic's balance and clarity in works by PArt and Prokofiev with Korean ...

Prokofiev’s mind-blowing second Symphony, plus early Beethoven and a charming opener from Schubert. Schubert’s Die Zauberharfe is from one of his few stageworks, and this is its cheerfully bustling ...

Partly due to so much getting mislaid, the cheerfully bustling overture to ‘Zauberharfe’ was known as ‘Rosamunde’ for decades. Sergei Prokofiev’s Second Symphony, the first major work he completed ...

With Prokofiev’s militaristic Seventh Sonata (also premiered by Richter), Sternath ... The Precipitato finale is a real finger-cruncher, a mechanical toccata in 7/8, but huge credit to Sternath for ...

Vladimir Jurowski conducts the LPO in a programme of uncompromising emotional power, with music by Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, and the Ukrainian composer Borys Liatoshynsky's Third Symphony.

A concert commemorating the 80 th anniversary of the Second World War is bound to be emotionally demanding. Some orchestras would shy away from the idea, but that’s not the Britten Sinfonia’s ...

Dance historians often note that George Balanchine adored women. Sure: so did Henry VIII. The Russian-American choreographer too was much married, and his creative leaps were often spurred by a ...

The musician Pierre Boulez - one of the dominant composers of the 20th century and a deeply respected conductor - is perhaps most widely known for his iconoclastic utterances, suggesting we 'blow ...

Reserved early by Ryan Moore off the pace set by Arizona Blaze (GB) (Sergei Prokofiev), the 6-4 favourite arrived late to collar that rival and the eventual second Comanche Brave (Ire ...

Russian journalist Anna Prokofieva was killed after her crew hit a landmine near the Ukraine border amidst escalating conflict. Cameraman Dmitry Volkov was severely injured. This incident ...

Still, it’s fascinating to hear Prokofiev cutting his already-sharp teeth as a composer of ballet music, while Cesar Corrales is a deranged but disciplined knockout as the Son, and on Friday ...