Internationally renowned conductor Tugan Sokhiev divides his time between the symphonic and lyric repertoire, guest conducting the most prestigious orchestras around the world.
As Music Director of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse from…
Since his gold medal win at the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009, Haochen Zhang has captivated audiences in the United States, Europe, and Asia with a unique combination of deep musical sensitivity, fearless imagination,…
Praised by the Washington Post for combining “staggering technical prowess, a sense of command and depth of expression,” pianist George Li possesses an effortless grace, poised authority, and brilliant virtuosity far beyond his years. Since winning…
What Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and Mussorgsky later carried forward all started with Glinka: the quest for an autonomous Russian musical language. In his orchestral works, operas and songs, as well as in his chamber music, he frequently used Russian…
Sergei Rakhmaninov, one of the greatest pianists of all time and one of the most outstanding melodists amongst composers, was born at Oneg, near Novgorod, on 20 March 1873 (1 April New Style), into a musical family. In 1888 Rakhmaninov began to study…
With his highly virtuosic 24 caprices for violin solo, Niccolò Paganini created a stroke of genius, which inspired such composers as Schumann, Brahms and Liszt. Schumann composed his own piano accompaniment for the work, while Brahms transcribed the…
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Peter I. Tschaikowsky
"I consider you the greatest musical talent in present-day Russia", Russian music critic Hermann Laroche is said to have told Peter I. Tschaikowsky (born on April 25th 1840 in Votkinsk). And indeed, with his emotion-laden, voluptuous music, the…
"I consider you the greatest musical talent in present-day Russia", Russian music critic Hermann Laroche is said to have told Peter I. Tschaikowsky (born on April 25th 1840 in Votkinsk). And indeed, with his emotion-laden, voluptuous music, the…
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B-flat minor, Opus 23
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B-flat minor, Opus 23
Calling it worthless, unplayable, trivial and vulgar, pianist Nikolai Rubinstein rejected Pyotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky´s First Piano Concerto. Composing it in 1874 had been a harrowing task for Tchaikovsky. Rubinstein demanded a total revision, which…
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Tugan Sokhiev
Internationally renowned conductor Tugan Sokhiev divides his time between the symphonic and lyric repertoire, guest conducting the most prestigious orchestras around the world.
As Music Director of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse from…
Since his gold medal win at the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009, Haochen Zhang has captivated audiences in the United States, Europe, and Asia with a unique combination of deep musical sensitivity, fearless imagination,…
Praised by the Washington Post for combining “staggering technical prowess, a sense of command and depth of expression,” pianist George Li possesses an effortless grace, poised authority, and brilliant virtuosity far beyond his years. Since winning…
What Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and Mussorgsky later carried forward all started with Glinka: the quest for an autonomous Russian musical language. In his orchestral works, operas and songs, as well as in his chamber music, he frequently used Russian…
Sergei Rakhmaninov, one of the greatest pianists of all time and one of the most outstanding melodists amongst composers, was born at Oneg, near Novgorod, on 20 March 1873 (1 April New Style), into a musical family. In 1888 Rakhmaninov began to study…
With his highly virtuosic 24 caprices for violin solo, Niccolò Paganini created a stroke of genius, which inspired such composers as Schumann, Brahms and Liszt. Schumann composed his own piano accompaniment for the work, while Brahms transcribed the…
more
Peter I. Tschaikowsky
"I consider you the greatest musical talent in present-day Russia", Russian music critic Hermann Laroche is said to have told Peter I. Tschaikowsky (born on April 25th 1840 in Votkinsk). And indeed, with his emotion-laden, voluptuous music, the…
"I consider you the greatest musical talent in present-day Russia", Russian music critic Hermann Laroche is said to have told Peter I. Tschaikowsky (born on April 25th 1840 in Votkinsk). And indeed, with his emotion-laden, voluptuous music, the…
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B-flat minor, Opus 23
Calling it worthless, unplayable, trivial and vulgar, pianist Nikolai Rubinstein rejected Pyotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky´s First Piano Concerto. Composing it in 1874 had been a harrowing task for Tchaikovsky. Rubinstein demanded a total revision, which…
more
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