Russian artist Ilya Glazunov has died in Moscow at the age of 87. Russian state media reported Glazunov's passing on July 9, citing a statement from his wife. The cause of death was not immediately ...

A rare Glazunov symphony is on the way this hour. Before we hear it, Evgeny Svetlanov leads the USSR Symphony Orchestra in a shorter piece by Glazunov: Procession, the second of his two Finnish ...

Dating from 1897, Glazunov's Sixth Symphony was the work that established its 32-year-old composer as Tchaikovsky's natural successor. Like much of his music, its debts and aims are a bit too overt.

As we continue our cycle of the symphonies of Russian composer Alexander Glazunov on Symphony at 7, we'll have a different "Pastoral Symphony," not the one by Beethoven but one with a Russian accent.

Glazunov wrote his incidental music to Mikhail Lermontov's Masquerade for the play's premiere in 1917, some 76 years after its author's untimely death in a duel in the Caucasus. An extraordinary piece ...

Compared to his ballets, Glazunov’s eight symphonies don’t get a look-in. They lack the genius of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, and their swirling themes have a habit of going round in circles rather ...

Symphony No. 5 Royal Scottish National Orchestra Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, Composer José Serebrier, Conductor (The) Seasons José Serebrier, Conductor Royal Scottish National Orchestra ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor Esther Yoo, Violin Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, Composer Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Vladimir ...