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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anyone who heard Stephen Hough's barnstorming performances of all the Tchaikovsky piano concertos at last year's Proms will want to own these CDs, which mark Hyperion's 50th recording in their ...

In both these concertos it is hard not to enjoy Denis Matsuev's playing and that of the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, if only for the sheer enthusiasm and larger-than-life presence. Even ...

Here is Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, but not (quite) as you know it. Kirill Gerstein is offering the first recording of the 1879 version, which he says invites a less showy kind of performance.

Tchaikovsky’s thrilling violin Concerto played on the very same instrument that inspired the work. Russian violinist Vadim Gluzman joins the West Australian Symphony Orchestra with the 1690 ...

Edgar B. Herwick III is an award-winning journalist who hosts The Curiosity Desk, GBH News’ daily show where he answers your questions, digs deeper into trending topics and explores some of the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The pianist Nikolay Rubinstein, dedicatee of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, famously described the work as ...