The ending of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, the “Pathétique,” likely set a record Friday in a well-balanced, satisfying Masterworks program at Jacobs Music Center. It was the longest silence I’ve ever ...

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 ...

Russia in the 1860s - the land without the symphony. Well, actually that's not quite true: Anton Rubinstein had written three, but, based in the language of Mendelssohn and Schumann, they propounded a ...

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBCSO conducted by Sakari Oramo in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Leonidas Kavakos, plus ...

In his 1932 Handbook of Conducting, German conductor Herman Scherchen described the orchestral conductor as a “master mind” and “almost superhuman … magician” who is “the vehicle for the manifestation ...

A Dani Howard world premiere and Leonidas Kavakos' commanding Tchaikovsky precede an extraordinary account of Scriabin's neglected Second Symphony ...

With his fifth symphony, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky yet again demonstrated why he was one of the romantic era's finest composers - but what kind of critical reaction did the work get, and how did it ...

Symphony No 2 is usually dubbed the ‘Little Russian’, but was once nicknamed the ‘Ukrainian symphony’, writes Edward Wilson. Plus Jeremy Muldowney on a young Polish artist’s national pride Re the ...

The Dae Won Cultural Foundation (Chairman Kim Il-gon) will hold its 2026 New Year’s Concert on January 29 at the Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall. Under the theme “Tchaikovsky’s Night,” the event will ...

5 Pieces for String Quartet Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck, Conductor Manfred Honeck has been Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony since 2008, during which time they have released ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra performed a selection of Tchaikovsky works, including “1812 Overture” and Symphony No. 5, on Wednesday at Saratoga Performing Arts Center.

The Cleveland Orchestra recorded only one Tchaikovsky symphony with their longtime music director George Szell (the Fifth in 1959 for CBS), and one with Welser-Möst’s predecessor Christoph von ...