Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As anyone will know who has heard St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra with its artistic director, they have a ...
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 wrote of his Fourth Symphony that “None of my earlier works for orchestra has given me such trouble, but on none have I lavished such love and devotion”. Vasily Petrenko and the Royal ...
The London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski take us on a musical journey through Tchaikovsky's darkest symphonies, Nos. 4 and 5. Tchakovsky wrote most of his Symphony No. 4 in the midst of ...
Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. John Suchet's Album of the Week. Picture: Classic ...
Paavo Järvi and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra continue their exploration of Tchaikovsky with the neglected Second Symphony and the iconic Fourth. The first movement of the Second often outstays its ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Gergiev is less a conductor than an elemental force, fortunately a very musical one. This three-CD set of Tchaikovsky's last three ...
The Symphonies were recorded live with a special recording concept by Herbert von Karajan, and he did not only direct the filming, but also closely followed the editing and mastering of the symphonies ...
In recent times, you might possibly have stumbled on these DG 1956 mono Leningrad Tchaikovskys (last seen on budget-price Heliodor LPs) in your local second-hand LP store, but, for most of us, they ...