Alexander Borodin

Borodin worked on his First Symphony while pursuing his scientific career and developing his craft with encouragement from Balakirev. Its four movements contrast a rhythmically active opening and light scherzo with a...

Borodin's Second Symphony opens with a compact, heavily accented theme that frames the first movement. Its contrasting passages favor broad melody, while the scherzo introduces a very different rhythmic energy. A...

Borodin left his Third Symphony unfinished at his death. The two movements normally performed were prepared and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov from the surviving material and his knowledge of the composer's...