Do we need another set of Tchaikovsky symphonies? More to the point, do we need them from the little known Melbourne Symphony Orchestra? Having listened and re-listened to these live recordings, the ...
The complete symphonies of Tchaikovsky are an imperative for any serious record collector. And this recording from the critically acclaimed MSO Live series is set to become a classic. From the first ...
The Wellesley Symphony Orchestra's upcoming concert, "Remembrance", sends us to Rome, via Russia, and to memories of Sundays ...
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 3, 4 and 6 Onyx (two CDs) Out now This year, it’s six decades since the Liverpool Philhar­monic got the right to call itself Royal. And the orchestra ­celebrates this milestone ...
It contains some of his most powerful music, and yet it has always been strangely neglected so that many concert goers are simply not aware of it. It should be enough - it is easily the largest of ...
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 ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ask the average music lover what they know of Tchaikovsky’s music and the answer is likely to be the big works, ...
As a symphonist, Tchaikovsky enriched the repertoire and exerted a vital influence on later composers as diverse as Sibelius, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Of his first three symphonies, the second ...
Connections among the three composers at Friday night’s Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert might not have been immediately obvious. Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky were both sons of imperial Russia, ...