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 ...

Modest Mussorgsky wasn't leaving anything to chance in his opera Kovanshchina. He wrote voluminous notes about the history along the way. But in the end, only the music counted. Claudio Abbado ...

Russia's contribution to the arts over the past couple of centuries has been extraordinary and unparalleled. Russian authors are among the greatest writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Russia is ...

Jukka-Pekka Saraste (YOO-kah PEK-kah SAH-rah-steh) conducts the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in "The Old Castle," from "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky (moh-DEHST MOO-sork-skee).

Pictures at an Exhibition Philippe Jordan, Conductor Paris National Opera Orchestra Modest Mussorgsky, Composer Symphony No. 1, 'Classical' Philippe Jordan, Conductor Sergey Prokofiev, Composer Paris ...

Songs and Dances of Death London Philharmonic Orchestra Mstislav Rostropovich, Conductor Galina Vishnevskaya, Soprano Modest Mussorgsky, Composer Darling Savishna Mstislav Rostropovich, Piano Galina ...