A music critic at the time commented that Russian composer Alexander Borodin’s 2nd Symphony had “the flavor of an ancient Russian epic.” That's fitting, as the composer included unused musical ideas ...
Created at the same time as his opera “Prince Igor,” from which he contributed some of the opera’s unused heroic musical ideas, Alexander Borodin’s 2nd Symphony was noted by a music critic at the time ...
Stephen Johnson is joined by conductor Andre de Ridder and the BBC Philharmonic to explore some of the many musical ideas that inspired Alexander Borodin's Second Symphony, a work composed by a ...
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Like many of Russia's great composers, Alexander Borodin was renown in other fields beyond music. Although composer Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) is best known for writing one of the best Russian ...
Pianist, organist and conductor Wayne Marshall will be performing Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F and Borodin’s Symphony No. 2 at the Manoel Theatre. He expresses his connection with the two works to ...