Yuri Temirkanov, an esteemed Soviet-born conductor who rebuilt the once-storied St. Petersburg Philharmonic after the collapse of communism and led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for seven inspired ...

Conductor Temirkanov and pianist Lugansky gave striking interpretations of Brahms, Beethoven and Elgar, building towards a powerful, emotional finale During last summer’s Proms, the pianist Nikolai ...

As head of two of Russia’s leading musical institutions, the Kirov (later, Mariinsky) Opera and Ballet Theatre (1976-88) and the Leningrad (later, St Petersburg) Philharmonic Orchestra, of which he ...

Immersed in his native land’s repertoire — Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev — he drew bold, rich sounds from the world’s major orchestras. In Russia, he was adored. By Adam Nossiter Yuri ...

With bullets and bombs flying amid the growing bloodshed in Iraq, this might seem like the time for a piece of music that would plumb the horrors and degradations of war. Shostakovich's "Leningrad" ...

Music director Yuri Temirkanov has agreed to stay with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra after his initial contract expires at the end of the 2002/2003 season on a year-to-year basis. Temirkanov and ...

Yuri Temirkanov, the internationally renowned conductor who led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for nearly seven years in the early 2000s, died Thursday, a BSO spokesperson said. He was 84. Born in ...

Yuri Temirkanov, who has died aged 84, was a Russian conductor known for his old-school approach both to music-making and women; he drew rich, romantic sounds from orchestras in Britain, America and ...

Some of the season's most anticipated concerts have run into conflicts with the weather this winter. A couple of weeks ago, the Takacs Quartet played through a snowstorm to a diminished audience in ...

Yuri Temirkanov, a well-traveled Russian conductor steeped in his country’s bygone musical culture, died Nov. 2 in St. Petersburg, the city where he held sway for over 30 years. He was 84. His death ...