Rodion Konstantinowitsch Schtschedrin

Rodion Shchedrin is internationally recognized as the pre-eminent contemporary composer of the Russian modern school. His autobiography looks back over an eventful life and provides a variety of stimu...

The first movement 'Breakfast al fresco' is dominated by impressionistic colour, delicate tremoli sul ponticello and flageolet sounds in the two strings are juxtaposed with precise runs in the piano....

Includes: Poem - Humoresque - In the style of Albeniz - Troika - and more.

A magical tour through the land of flying horses, dazzling fish and tumbling clowns highlights this magnificent Bolshoi Ballet production of Rodion Shchedrin's The Little Humpbacked Horse.Featuring th...

Seeing Tolstoy's great novel set to dance was a dream of Maya Plisetskaya, but she encountered endless difficulties in finding a choreographer either able or willing to take on the challenge. Never on...

Carmen was first set as a ballet by the famed Russian choreographer Petipa in 1845. It was based on the Mérimée novella and premiered in Madrid some thirty years before Bizet's opera was first heard....

The premiere of Shchedrin's famous opera, based on the novel by Nabokov, met with violent protests. No wonder: Shchedrin had brought the entire explosive power of the erotic Lolita material to the ope...

Shchedrin, son of a composer and music teacher, underwent a thorough musical training in Moscow. His versatility and dazzling competence across a wide variety of musical genres are surely a result of...

With his five piano concertos, sonatas and 24 preludes and fugues Rodion Shchedrin is one of the most prominent composers for piano of our time. A gifted pianist, he has given the first performances o...

Shchedrin's (oEuvre spans nearly every musical genre, and it is hardly surprising that an output of such versatility contains some rather remarkable instrumental combinations, for example 'Music from...