Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. With two Russians at the helm of rival London orchestras, it was only going to be a matter of time before their ...

Russia in the 1860s - the land without the symphony. Well, actually that's not quite true: Anton Rubinstein had written three, but, based in the language of Mendelssohn and Schumann, they propounded a ...

Orchestras everywhere play a lot of Tchaikovsky. The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, its musicians raised on the Russian composer, plays a whole lot of Tchaikovsky, as it has been doing ...

Over the last few years, Valery Gergiev's releases on the London Symphony Orchestra's own label have centred upon his cycle of the Mahler symphonies, with rather variable results. But back in the ...

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Symphony No. 4 Valery Gergiev, Conductor, Bass Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony No. 5 Valery Gergiev, Conductor, Bass Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre ...

Throughout the course of the festival, a wide range of orchestras and conductors will give the complete symphony cycle of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. This will include, as well as the six numbered works ...

They shared the same birthday —May 7 — but that was about all. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms simply understood, felt and composed music very differently, and judged each other’s work ...