Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky’s famed 1812 Overture was first performed, outdoors, at the base of the majestic Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. His beloved ballet, the Nutcracker, was introduced ...

THE BASICS: JoAnn Falletta, Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, conducts the first of a two-weekend Tchaikovsky Festival (Part 2 will be Feb. 21-22). Tonight’s concert (this Saturday ...

Classic FM Album of the Week, starting Monday 23 November 2015 after 10am. This the first recording that rising star Mélodie Zhao has made with a full orchestra - and it's an ambitious one, too. But ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ask the average music lover what they know of Tchaikovsky’s music and the answer is likely to be the big works, ...

Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto has long lived in the shadow of its ubiquitous predecessor and fallen victim to well-meaning editorial excisions. Jeremy Nicholas assesses its eight-decade ...

Research by pianist Kirill Gerstein has revealed that the standardly performed version of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto differs substantially from what the composer actually wrote. It’s a shame ...

Tchaikovsky composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 during an intensive period of composition at the end of 1874, with the orchestrations then written in the February of the following year. However, after ...

Hear Van Cliburn's hit recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, recorded at Carnegie Hall on May 30, 1958, just six weeks after winning the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. In the 1950s, ...

When I came to record Tchaikovsky’s B flat minor Piano Concerto, I was worried that there were already more than 200 recordings available and that perhaps 400 recordings in total had been made. That ...

2015 is the 175th anniversary of Tchaikovksy’s birthday. It is also 140 years since the premiere of that great warhorse, his Piano Concerto No 1. In his first disc with an orchestra – the first of ...

The National Symphony Youth Arts Troupe, the National Symphony Concert Orchestra (KNCO), will hold its third regular concert ...

Though Van Cliburn won the first Tchaikovsky competition, he isn't the only American whose career was boosted by the opportunity. Pianist Daniel Pollack also won a prize, and spoke with NPR's Scott ...