Nikolai Myaskovsky has been played on NTS in shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, featured first on 7 May 2018. Songs played include Violin Concerto No. 2 In G Minor, Op. 63.

Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky (Russian: Никола́й Я́ковлевич Мяско́вский (20 April 1881 – 8 August 1950) was a Russian composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony".

Myaskovsky was long recognized as an individualist even by the Soviet establishment. In the 1920s the critic Boris Asafyev commented that he was 'not the kind of composer the Revolution would like; he reflects life not through the feelings and spirit of the masses,…