NO, you are not seeing double; and yes, if you follow the classical album reviews, you will know that Valery Gergiev appeared here with his latest recording just weeks ago. So why Gergiev again? Easy: ...

Russia's best-known conductor Valery Gergiev has been named head of Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre, alongside his current role at Russia's other top theatre, the Mariinsky in St Petersburg. The two ...

One great performance can really mess with your expectations of what can be done with the same piece the next time around. Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra visited Toronto two years ...

There’s something big, bright and showy about the current incarnation of the Mariinsky Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Russia, as conducted by Valery Gergiev. With his twitching, serpent’s-tongue of a ...

Russian conductor Valery Gergiev Photo: Courtesy of Beijing Performing Arts Centre Renowned Russian conductor Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra amazed Chinese audiences at ...

Although it may be nothing more than a genteel form of ethnic profiling, for a century or more, musicians have talked about different national styles in their art. Certain characteristics seemed to ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Anthony Tommasini “So how has your week been?,” an exhausted-looking Zarin Mehta, president of the New York Philharmonic, asked the ...

A provocative pairing: given Stravinsky’s place as the high priest of modernism in the first half of our century, a salutary reminder that he and the short-lived Scriabin were almost contemporaries ...

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