Classical Instrumental Works for Orchestra

Glasunows letzte vollendete Sinfonie ist die Achte - ein majestätisches Werk, in dem sein Talent, seine Phantasie sowie seine kontrapunktische Meisterschaft einen gemeinsamen Höhepunkt erreichen. Nach...

Since Le Destin is in fact music for the stage, it is important to recall the subject matter of Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The Masque of the Red Death', which was written in 1842. 'The Red Death'...

In 1883 Glazunov orchestrated a number of piano works by Chopin and called the suite Chopiniana (Les Sylphides). The music inspired the young choreograph Mikhail Fokin, who later achieved internationa...

In 1883 Glazunov orchestrated a number of piano works by Chopin and called the suite Chopiniana (Les Sylphides). The music inspired the young choreograph Mikhail Fokin, who later achieved internationa...

Glazunov began to compose this work at the age of fifteen. His diary records: 'I composed and orchestrated the slow movement of Symphony no. 1 ('Andante') in the summer of 1881 . . . The score of the...

Glazunov began to compose this work at the age of fifteen. His diary records: 'I composed and orchestrated the slow movement of Symphony no. 1 ('Andante') in the summer of 1881 . . . The score of the...

Symphony no. 5 is one of Glazunov's most popular and most frequently performed works. Although it is obviously in the tradition of the new St Petersburg school (and especially in that of Alexander Bor...