It's been a good year for conductor Marin Alsop. She's coming out with a series of Brahms recordings with the London Symphony, and she's been busy guest conducting. We hear her leading with the German ...

From an annual day-long European broadcast of seasonal music from many different countries, we hear music by Handel, then a short piece by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The Saarbrucken Radio Symphony plays ...

The Tsar's Bride is an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. It was the tenth opera the composer wrote. The words were written by Il’ya Tyumenev who based the story on a book called “The Tsar’s Bride" by ...

Donald Macleod surveys the life and work of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Rimsky-Korsakov’s music is filled with lush orchestration and hints of orientalism and folk music. These elements and his role as a ...

‘Amadeus,” the 1984 eight Academy Award-winning Miloš Forman film, didn’t originate the idea that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was poisoned by his mediocre colleague Antonio Salieri, nor the 1979 Tony ...

Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve, based on a short story by Gogol, centres on the love of the blacksmith Vakula for the rich farmer's daughter Oksana, who mockingly requires him to obtain for her the ...

Donald Macleod surveys the life and work of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Rimsky-Korsakov’s music is filled with lush orchestration and hints of orientalism and folk music. These elements and his role as a ...