Following the interval, Rimsky-Korsakov's great orchestral showpiece Scheherazade then gave the entire spotlight over to the ranks of the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, conducted with ...

Kalle Kuusava, a Finnish conductor and winner of European Conductors Competition in Oslo in 2013, will lead a concert ...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. New York's Musical Courier was not so far from the mark when it reported in 1897: ...

Rimsky-Korsakov, Gluck and Bill Withers and readings performed by Pearl Mackie and Matthew Tennyson include Oscar Wilde, Noel Streatfield, William Golding. Show more From Princess Scheherazade who ...

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Despite the meagre amount of his music heard regularly today, Rimsky-Korsakov’s place in Russian music cannot be overstated. Compared with the music of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, a meagre amount of ...