Steven Machtinger, Attorney and Violist performing with The San Joaquin Quartet Alexander Borodin (1833-87) was a famous Russian chemist who today is better known as one of the greatest Romantic ...

Not since the Bolsheviks took over Russia has there been such a musical orgy as that which began in Leningrad last week, promised to run for ten full days. Soviet Russia was having its first big music ...

Freedom of expression is enjoyed by many, but it is cherished by those who have lived without it. In his early 30s, a leading musical voice was reprimanded by his heads of state for his disapproved ...

The Borodin Quartet is remarkable for its longevity, still operating 72 years after it was founded under the name Moscow Philharmonic Quartet. It must be the longest-playing chamber ensemble currently ...

In late December, the Berlin Philharmonic performed an all-Russian concert: Mussorgsky and Borodin. Now that concert is an EMI Classics CD. It begins with Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” (in ...

At 81, Valentin Berlinsky, cellist of the famed Borodin Quartet, is a remarkable musician. I wish the concert had been equally remarkable. Here's my review of Monday's concert. Let's be clear: Cellist ...

“Kismet” is one of those guilty-pleasure musicals you can’t help but love. The story is a nonsensical tale of beggars, royalty and wicked figures rooted in Arabian-night lore, with plenty of daring ...

Pianist Junhui Chen from Fuzhou, China graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2019 and is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the Juilliard School. In his graduation recital, Junhui paid ...

Back in April I reviewed a concert in the City Hall given by the fine Edinburgh Youth Orchestra on one of its visits to the west. The programme, conducted by Garry Walker, himself a former cellist in ...

The Musical Times is the oldest continuously-published music journal in the world, founded in 1844. For more information, including an extensive archive of obituaries of leading musicians from ...

Kismet (book by Charles Lederer & Luther Davis; music by Alexander Borodin; musical adaptation and lyrics by Robert Wright & George Forrest) seems to have mistaken itself at times for a supercolossal ...