In this high-wire, high-contrast pairing of Prokofiev's manically concussive Piano Concerto No. 2 and Ravel's buoyant Piano Concerto in G Major, fast-rising Chopin and Liszt virtuoso Yundi Li expands ...

Sergei Prokofiev composed two sonatas for violin and piano. One is a grim reflection on war and terror. The other, a converted flute sonata, is much sunnier. For ...

The focal sonata of Prokofiev’s wartime triptych is the Seventh, completed in 1942, a year after the Soviet Union entered the conflict. But images of war, its destructive power and the feelings of ...

Prokofiev composed his Fifth Symphony in an artists’ retreat north of Moscow during the summer of 1944, while Soviet troops pushed west toward Berlin. He said he wanted the music to “sing of mankind ...

World-renowned cellist and musical director of El Paso Pro-Musica Zuill Bailey’s latest CD, “Prokofiev,” is now available. This is Bailey’s third release on the Steinway label. The CD is dedicated to ...

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Paavo Järvi, cond. Onyx. The Russian violin virtuoso Viktoria Mullova, now in her mid-50s, has had an interesting life: gold medals at the Sibelius and Tchaikovsky ...