On October 25th, roughly two months before the movie is released in American theaters, John Williams' soundtrack for Steven Spielberg...

For some of the composers we've covered here, it is truly baffling that they aren't better known. These are the symphonists whose wo...

Finnish composer Kalevi Aho 's Seventh Symphony  ( Hyönteisinfonia , "Insect Symphony") may be the most high-minded work ever...

Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) is one of those figures in music history with the misfortune of holding onto one style while living across t...

Although we've dealt with very few hardcore atonal works here at Unsung Symphonies so far, there does exist a (somewhat sporadic) threa...

It's a fine line between inspired conceit and pure gimmick, one which many of the symphonists we've already introduced seem to strad...

There is to Jón Leifs' music a ruggedness, sometimes verging on brutality, impossible not to link with the scarred and hostile land the ...

In 1948, the the Danish composer Rued Langgaard penned perhaps the snarkiest work for large orchestra and chorus in our fair history of wes...

Today we discuss a composer from the turn of the 19th Century whose four symphonies had until relatively recently fallen off the face of the...