This month, WQXR is taking 30 popular pieces from our 2014 Classical Countdown and asking experts to give us their "next step" compositions. Next up: Glinka’s "Kamarinskaya." ...

The music lasted but an hour, Mikhail Glinka’s seven-minute “Kamarinskaya: Fantasy on Two Russian Folk Songs” and the 53-minute Symphony No. 10 in E Minor by Dmitri Shostakovich. That was sufficient ...

Kamarinskaya Cyprien Katsaris, Piano Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Composer Alexander Ghindin, Piano Valse fantaisie Alexander Ghindin, Piano Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Composer Cyprien Katsaris, Piano ...

Mikhail Glinka is considered the "Father of Russian Music," because he used folk music in his orchestral compositions. NPR's Fred Child chats with Nikolai Kachanov, director of the Russian Chamber ...