Strip away sentimentality and there is a taut argument at the heart of each of Tchaikovsky’s mature symphonies. Vasily Petrenko has worked assiduously with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra ...

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 ...

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 ...

They shared the same birthday —May 7 — but that was about all. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms simply understood, felt and composed music very differently, and judged each other’s work ...

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 ...

Growing up as an avid violinist, Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings was one of my favorite and most rewarding pieces to play. The fact that it was a staple in the repertoire of the New York City ...

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 ...

In his latest Cannes competition entry, Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov ('Petrov’s Flu') chronicles the disastrous marriage between the famous composer and his wife Antonina Miliukova. By ...