Something a little different this week. Get your ears around the ferocious and concise drama of Nikolai Myaskovsky's Tenth Symphony, a truly remarkable document of early 20th century symphonic history ...

As much as I think I know about classical music I continue to be humbled by how much I don’t know. As we turn toward summer, the esoteric pick of the week is back on my radar and it brings with it a ...

Symphony No. 15 Nikolay Myaskovsky, Composer Russian Federation Academic Symphony Orchestra Evgeni Svetlanov, Conductor Symphony No. 27 Russian Federation Academic Symphony Orchestra Nikolay ...

Nikolai Myaskovsky was the dark horse of Soviet symphonism who, like many of his peers, suffered "official" disapproval. He was attacked in the 1948 Soviet Party Decree, yet the catalogue of his ...

With online talks through February and March and now three concerts, a festival in the city of Yekaterinburg – Sverdlovsk, as it was known in Soviet times – is belatedly making news of a composer who ...