It's odd that the two concertos Shostakovich composed for his own instrument lack the scope of those he produced for violin and for cello. Both the piano concertos are much more divertimento-like, ...

Russian pianist and composer of startlingly diverse orchestral works, ballet music and operas The prolific Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, who has died aged 92, displayed a disconcertingly diverse ...

Shchedrin was one of the most high-profile Russian composers of the late Soviet era and continued to lead the Russian new music scene in the following decades The Russian composer and pianist Rodion ...

He drew on Russian literature for his stage works and was an eager experimenter, inspired by folk tales, religious mysticism and melodrama. By Jonathan Kandell Rodion Shchedrin, a leading Russian ...

Music for Strings, Oboes, Horns and Celesta Turku Philharmonic Orchestra Olli Mustonen, Conductor Shepherd's Pipes of Vologda Turku Philharmonic Orchestra Olli Mustonen, Conductor Concerto dolce Turku ...

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Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, who created the celebrated ballets “Anna Karenina” and the “Carmen Suite,” has died in Germany at age of 92, Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater said Friday.

Is the artist’s life really more free in the Soviet Union since the arrival of glasnost? To Rodion Shchedrin, one of the country’s most important composers, the answer is obvious from his very ...

Maya Plisetskaya as Carmen and Nikolai Fadeyechev in Shchedrin's 1967 ballet for her Recently, however, Shchedrin - now 78 and long hardly heard in Russian and European concert halls coming to terms ...