Collaborative pianist Michael Pandya, currently a BBC New Generation Artist, is joined for this lunchtime recital by the tenor Hiroshi Amako, a postgraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music. The ...

On November 6, 1893, I was in St. Petersburg. Today, Tchaikovsky died at the age of 53. It had been only nine days since he ...

Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a gay icon in music, is the subject of two new recordings, an involving set of ...

November 5, 2021 • From her first solo album in five years, soprano Anna Netrebko discovers all the bittersweet beauty in an aria by Tchaikovsky. November 10, 2020 • Viewers worldwide are responding ...

An original production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, presented in dancing laser lights will be featured on Friday and ...

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When guest soloist Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider walked back onto the Powell Hall stage on Friday, November 1, yielding to the audience’s call for an encore, he described his experience playing with t ...

When Russian shooter Vitalina Batsarashkina stood on the podium to celebrate her gold medal in shooting at the Tokyo Games, somewhere composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky was smiling. True, the famed Russian ...

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 ...

On Friday, April 28, the Los Angeles Philharmonic delivered a performance of Tchaikovsky’s fifth symphony at LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. Also at Walt Disney Concert Hall at that time, it sure ...

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B minor has been overshadowed by the composer’s untimely death just nine days after its premiere. But legends like these can distract us from the nuances of a piece ...