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Here’s how you make an “American” ballet: First, choose a super-American topic (such as the building of the Union Pacific railway); second, use quirky, off-kilter
Glazunov’s Third symphony is far less stylistically assured than its immediate predecessor, a fact acknowledged even by his most ardent supporters, including Rimsky-Korsakov. When it’s
This disc has more reason to exist than most in Chandos’ embarrassingly bad series of recordings featuring these forces, but that doesn’t make it a
Valeri Polyansky’s Russian symphonic series for Chandos has exhibited varying levels of accomplishment, but it reaches a new low with this hopelessly blasé recording of
Alexander Grechaninov composed his Symphony No. 5 in 1936 in Paris, where he lived before emigrating to the United States, where the work was premiered
The title of this disc is somewhat misleading, as there is very little music on it originally composed by Shostakovich. The Overture (Entr’Acte) to Poor
Rachmaninov’s masterpieces all deal with death and a deep, desperate melancholy. In the Symphonic Dances, this morbid obsession is expressed through mechanical, hallucinatory joy, lascivious
