Some thoughts on the history and historiography of Russian music
For Ukraine, he's a native son, regardless
"Classicism" a la russe
A wonderful beginning
Dargomyzhsky and his "stone guest"
Pathetic symphonist: Chaikovsky, Russia, sexuality and the study of music
Chaikovsky and the literary folk: a study in misplaced derision
The great symbolist opera
Chaikovsky as symphonist
Russian originals, de- and re-edited
A new, new Boris?
Christian themes in Russian opera: a millennial essay
The case for Rimsky-Korsakov
Kitezh: religious art of an atheist
Sex and race, Russian style
Yevreyi and Zhidy: a memoir, a survey, and a plea
The antiliterary man: diaghilev and music
From fairy tale to opera in four moves
To cross that sacred edge: notes on a fiery angel
Prokofieff's return
Tone, style, and form in Prokofieff's Soviet operas
Great artists serving Stalin like a dog
Stalin lives on in the concert hall, but why?
The last symphony?
For Russian music mavens, a fabled beast is bagged
Restoring comrade roslavets
When serious music mattered
Casting a great composer as a fictional hero
Shostakovich's Bach: a pill to purge Stalinism
Five operas and a symphony
Hearing cycles
Of mice and Mendelssohn
Current chronicle: Molchanov's the dawns are quiet here
The rising Soviet mists yield up another voice
Where is Russia's new music? Iowa, that's where
North (Europe) by northwest (America).
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On Russian music by Richard Taruskin. ISBN 9780520249790. Published by University of California Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
