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: ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The pianist Nikolay Rubinstein, dedicatee of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, famously described the work as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Tchaikovsky, whose "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies" in the "Nutcracker" ballet delights children and adults alike at this time of year, wrote his later works at a table in his last residence in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...