The Chamber Music Society kicks off its Russian Panorama festival.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is on a mission this month: to explore the vast and mostly ignored field of Russian music beyond the "big names." True, the chamber works of Tchaikovsky and the quartets of Shostakovich are repertory staples, but Sunday's concert at Alice Tully Hall was dedicated (with one notable exception) to composers whose catalogues are new to Western ears.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| Like these Matroyshka dolls, Russian musical tradition has a complicated history. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. |
