This week we turn to the Russian composer who poured his passion and his pain into a body of works - from ballets to symphonies - that put his country on the international musical map Pyotr Ilyich ...

Please take a look at the translated version of their interesting conversation.Rubinstein: What a wonderful thing (the phonograph) this is.Block: Finally.Lorovskaya: How disgusting... how dare you ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s (BSO’s) program from last weekend made a convincing case that, lest no other composer, ...

Russia’s war in Ukraine has cast a deep shadow this year over the International Tchaikovsky Competition, one of the best-known and most respected music competitions in the world. Sanctions imposed by ...

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When Music Crosses Borders Musicians of over 40 nationalities have participated in this project. They gathered with the desire to share their love for Tchaikovsky's music and its brilliance with the ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is just as misunderstood as he is popular. The prestigious Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival demonstrates how much is still unknown about the composer. In the view of the ...

Renee Montagne talks with Miles Hoffman about the history of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite. Hoffman is the violist of the American Chamber Players, and authored The NPR Classical Music Companion.

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...