Russia’s war in Ukraine has cast a deep shadow this year over the International Tchaikovsky Competition, one of the best-known and most respected music competitions in the world. Sanctions imposed by ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.

Tchaikovsky was a blazingly inventive genius and brilliant orchestrator who pushed musical intensity towards its outer limits. What makes Tchaikovsky’s music so special? Tchaikovsky possessed an ...

Tchaikovsky thought his Symphony No. 6 was the best thing he'd ever written - but this masterpiece was unremittingly bleak. All of Tchaikovsky's symphonies are mini-dramas in both human and musical ...

In light of Russia's invasion into Ukraine, many westerners are understandably doing their level best to distance themselves from President Vladimir Putin and those loyal to him. But some of those ...

Carnegie Hall’s 120 th anniversary year celebration, taking place during its 2011-12 season, is bringing the music of composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to devotes both near and far. This week marked ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The title Tchaikovsky’s Wife may suggest a biopic, but the words are more like a job description for the most thankless ...

Research by pianist Kirill Gerstein has revealed that the standardly performed version of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto differs substantially from what the composer actually wrote. It’s a shame ...

On the eve of an ambitious BBC retrospective, Adam Sweeting reports on the controversies that still surround the composer's death In summer 2005, the BBC launched a blitz of round-the-clock Beethoven ...