No wonder that so much of Borodin’s music was abandoned or left incomplete at his death – his public duties as an eminent scientist and research chemist left him no time for systematic composition.

Maxim Borodin had contacted a friend the day before he was found seriously injured beneath his fifth-floor flat A Russian investigative journalist who wrote about the deaths of mercenaries in ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Alexander Borodin, a polymath, who was one of Russia's great research chemists as well one of the 19th century's most enchanting composers ...

The music they dance to includes Manuel de Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance, John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine and Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances. Designed and choreographed to actively engage ...