Poetry and Song to Plumb the Russian Soulâs Depths
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Misha Rachlevsky, the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin 's music director, elicited warm, full-blooded and virtuosic playing with colorfully shaped, gleaming phrases at Weill Recital Hall on Tuesday.
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For many, the words Russia and nuclear conjure up fear and loathing. But Russia's state nuclear company Rosatom sees only beauty.
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There is not always agreement between the piano and the voice in Schubertâs song cycle âDie SchÃ¶ne MÃ¼llerin.â
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James Rodgers explores Russia's relationship with its stormy history and larger-than-life leaders.
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Passages from a folk legendÂs latest album, ÂModern Times,Â echo a 19th-century ConfederateÂs verses.
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Artist and photographer  Ivan Ushkov takes dark pictures that set out to puncture the  glossy image of Russia that the country's leaders try to  project.
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While Leo Tolstoyâs play remains an intriguing curiosity, more interesting than good, it should be a must-see for students of Russian literature.
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In Alexander Sokurov&#39;s elegiac  new film, an old woman visits her grandson serving in Russia&#39;s  breakaway republic of Chechnya, and she quickly becomes a  magnet for soldiers and locals worn down by years of conflict.
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A documentary grab bag of film clips, diary readings and desultory narration, âA Journey of Dmitry Shostakovichâ peeks at the politics of this controversial composer.
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As the people of Beslan struggle with their grief, the schoolhouse where their children died has become a place of echoes and memories.
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Once the Olympiad of classical music, Russia's top international music prize the Tchaikovsky competition opened this week hoping to restore its lost glory after more than a decade in the doldrums.
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Will Eno's play, starring James Urbaniak, is one of those treasured nights in the theater that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and in a puddle of tears.
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Their watercolors have focused wide attention on a vulnerable population in the booming Russian capital.
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A new song, âBig Joe Blues,â takes the Soviet regime to task. But in fact, Pete Seeger, 87, made similar statements years ago, at least as early as his 1993 book, âWhere Have All the Flowers Gone?â
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Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash: Spain struggles to find new words while Kosovo seeks a song of its own. La Marseillaise shows us how it's really done
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Off-colour language by young Russians is proving a money-spinner for authorities in a southern region.
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An eclectic array of collaborators has given new life to the lyrics a folk trailblazer left behind. A rare concert recording has surfaced too.