Yuri Termirkanov conducts the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic in a concert performance that was part of the orchestra's recent American tour. We hear them in concert at the University of Illinois, ...

The December 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” explores the music of Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. The piece is so popular at classical ...

Guest conductor Jane Glover leads the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1, "Classical" at Bass Performance Hall, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, in Fort Worth. Rebecca Slezak / Staff ...

After Stalin’s cultural police banned Sergei Prokofiev’s 6th symphony as decadent, he wrote his 7th Symphony for Soviet Children’s Radio hoping it would be perceived as acceptable and awarded a hefty ...

What: National Repertory Orchestra presents “Classical Symphony plus Mozart,” sponsored by Kenneth and Annette Hallock, St. Anthony Summit Medical Center and Summit Medical Center Health Foundation, ...

I missed this staging of Britten’s Billy Budd, first performed in May 2010. I’m increasingly convinced that it’s the best of Britten’s operas, taut, well plotted and musically flawless. The ...

Holy cow. Or maybe, gee whiz. As part of something called the Prokofiev World Tour and that sounded at times like world domination, the London Symphony Orchestra stopped by Orange County, courtesy of ...

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Orchestra has released a new spatial audio recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 6, led by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. The recording is an Apple Music Classical ...