The entire sweep of Russian musical history is explored in this four-part series, beginning with its origins in ancient chants and folk music, stretching through to radical contemporary composers ...

Song over Moscow, for Western audiences, is a cinematic curio, a satirical Russian musical about young love embattled by status seekers, bureaucratic bumblers and the apartment shortage.

a newly crafted musical piece from Emeritus Professor Philip Grange, takes centre stage. A story of despair, tragedy and protest, De Profundis is Latin for ‘From the Depths’. The piece reflects on the ...

The Russian composer Mikhail Glinka was one of the pioneers of musical nationalism. He created the first full-scale Russian opera, A Life for the Tsar (1836), which was technically on a par with ...

A musical instrument made from a Russian missile will be featured at a concert held at Blenheim Palace on Saturday night. The Gala Dinner for Ukraine at the estate in Woodstock, Oxfordshire ...