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Glazunov's Symphony no. 8, the last the composer completed, is a majestic achievement whose combination of talent, imagination and contrapuntal mastery was destined to remain unsurpassed. The Dutch mu...

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...

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...

In 1899, whilst he was still under the influence of his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Tcherepnin composed the music to Edmond Rostand’s play La Princesse Lointaine, the prelude of which is of...

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...