A ‘cradle-to-grave songspiel’ describing the arc of a woman’s life is brilliantly conceived by soprano Booth and pianist Glynn Modest Mussorgsky is indisputably one of the greatest of 19th-century ...

You can’t help but love Modest Mussorgsky; not only was he a brilliant composer, he was such a total, Dostoyevskian mess. This month, his great opera Khovanshchina is being performed by the Met after ...

After a somewhat low-key — pun intended — beginning on Friday night, the San Diego Symphony launched its monthlong “Upright & Grand” piano festival into powerhouse territory Saturday evening with a ...

“Unorthodox” is a description you could apply to much of the music by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky (1839-81). He was born into wealth (fellow composer Borodin once called him “an elegant ...

The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is embracing the exotic when it opens its 2025-26 season next weekend in Burlington and Rutland, but it hasn’t forgotten to include a beloved “war horse.” “It all ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Nashville Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin, Conductor Franz Liszt, Composer Peng Peng, Piano Pictures at an Exhibition Nashville Symphony Chorus Modest ...

Modest Mussorgsky wrote Pictures at an Exhibition as a memorial to his late friend, the painter Viktor Hartmann, in 1874. Still reeling from Hartmann’s death the year before, the Russian composer ...

Olga Kern, a pianist steeped in the Russian tradition, performs two pieces by Sergei Rachmaninoff from his Op. 3 collection of "Morceaux Fantaisie," or fantasy pieces: "Melodie" and "Serenade." Then ...

Most have heard the famous opening of Mussorgsky/Ravel’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” with its regal brass chorale used in films, TV, video games, and even as WWE entrance music. This year, we mark ...

It's 1598: tsar Fyodor dies and guards and priests force the crowd to beg Boris to become tsar of Russia. Finally, the coronation takes place in the Kremlin's cathedral square in an imposing ceremony ...