Imagine being in the audience for the musical soirée at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1876 when Tchaikovsky met Tolstoy. For years afterwards the composer recalled how Tolstoy was so moved by the slow ...

Piano Concerto No.1 in B Flat Minor, Op.23: Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso - Andantino semplice - Alegro con fuoco The Nutcracker Suite, Op.71: I. Miniature Overture The Nutcracker Suite, Op.71: ...

When the conductor Semyon Bychkov arrived at a Russian-style cafe in midtown Manhattan to discuss the upcoming Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky festival at the New York Philharmonic, I handed the conductor a ...

Tchaikovsky’s First (Winter Daydreams) and Second (Little Russian) Symphonies, written when he was 26 and 32, are minnows in the popularity stakes compared with the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth. They ...

Winner of the People’s Choice award and overall 2nd prizewinner of the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition, Rem Urasin’s brilliant performance of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto catapulted ...

From the wintery flute melody at the beginning of the first symphony, to the weighty strings at the end of the third, Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra prove Tchaikovsky's earlier ...

SCENE asked him to share with us five things we may not know about Tchaikovsky: Tchaikovsky conducted the opening concerts at Carnegie Hall the first week of May 1891. He actually conducted four ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is often coined as the first Russian composer to make a lasting impression internationally with his music. His music is remembered for being joyful, energetic, and uplifting; ...

The public verdict on Tchaikovsky’s symphonies long ago placed the first three well below the last three. And the composer himself, though he retained a special affection for the First (which carries ...

Four years ago next month, San Diego Repertory Theatre hosted the world premiere of Hershey Felder’s composer-inspired solo play with music, “Our Great Tchaikovsky.” But when the play returns to the ...