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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 ...

Sergei Prokofiev said of his Symphony No. 5, “I conceived of it as glorifying the grandeur of the human spirit, praising the free and happy man — his strength, his generosity, and the purity of his ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Prokofiev’s most popular Symphony, composed before the end of World War II, found the composer — hounded by Stalin’s Central Committee of the Communist Party — watching his back. Fiery harmonies ...

The most rewarding moments of last week’s Aspen Music Festival came in the big tent concerts, with Leonard Slatkin leading an energetic Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 and David Zinman taking a bold stab at ...

Some time ago I reviewed a disc by the Mariinsky Orchestra with Valery Gergiev, and expressed doubt about the quality of what I heard. This was sacrilege: for many music fans, Gergiev is a god-like ...

Violinist Midori performs the Brahms concerto with Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony in Helzberg Hall, March 2022 This week, Michael Stern and Dan Margolies explore three beloved works—one ...