There was a good reason for Augustin Hadelich to join the audience for Prokoviev's 5th Symphony. I was at the Saturday night concert which meant Augustin had already heard the Prokofiev on Friday. He ...

This pairing of Prokofiev symphonies includes two examples of differing character: his intense Second Symphony, “a piece of iron and steel” as he described it, and his most popular symphony, the more ...

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Most commanding of the still-active conductors who flourished in the Soviet Union is the Dadaistic Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, 75, well-known in the West for his wide repertory, dislike of rehearsals and ...

THINGS can move rapidly in the music business. It's only recently that Marin Alsop was announced as the new principal conductor of Brazil's Sao Paolo Symphony Orchestra with effect from next season, ...

People keep asking me why I recorded Sergei Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony for my first CD release in my new post leading the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra. The simple answer is that it just felt right.

These performances begin with an informative multimedia first half that takes the audience back in time to World War II in Soviet Russia. During the war, the Russian composer played a significant role ...

Musically speaking, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s latest Swire Maestro Series concert was a case of light emerging victorious from the ashes. The world premiere of Angus Lee’s … aux cendres, ...

The full schedule for the San Francisco Symphony's 2008-09 season follows. All events are in Davies Symphony Hall except where indicated; (m) denotes matinee; (Friday 6.5) denotes the 6.5 Series.

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The Houston Symphony welcomes Long Yu when he leads the orchestra in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. Yu will lead Huanzhi’s Spring Festival Overture and Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5, performed by ...