Tchaikovsky, the rococo twiddles of whose complete Nutcracker this team seems to have enjoyed so much on a recent recording, would probably take the palm, though Mahler, of all composers, will do, too ...
What is technical perfection if you don't have anything meaningful to say? It was something Pyotr Tchaikovsky mused about in ...
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5, Swan Lake suite (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti, cond.; London, 71:51). Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, Romeo and Juliet Fantasy ...
Twenty-five years ago, the 36-year-old curly-haired Liverpudlian conductor Simon Rattle led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in one of the greatest Mahler performances I ever heard. It was the then ...