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1 day ago · Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [n 1] ( / tʃaɪˈkɒfski / chy-KOF-skee; [2] 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) [n 2] was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current ...
3 days ago · Tchaikovsky worried whether the public would accept his opera, which lacked traditional scene changes. He believed that its performance required maximum simplicity and sincerity. With this in mind, he entrusted the first production to the students of the Moscow Conservatory.
2 days ago · Tchaikovsky was beset throughout his life (and long after) by the attentions of hangers-on, nagging busybodies, and deceptive well-wishers. Whether with the composer’s consent or not, they often succeeded in turning his native sense of equipoise into something more immediately marketable.
3 days ago · Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4, first movement Boston Symphony Orchestra (Pristine) This is the kind of moment that, in the wrong hands, gives Tchaikovsky a bad name.
2 days ago · Jul 24, 2024. The July 27 concert features Tchaikovsky and Britten masterpieces, plus Haydn Sinfonia starring four soloists. Nature’s forces charge off the stage in several forms of orchestral brilliance during the National Repertory Orchestra’s upcoming July 27 Britten’s Storm and Tchaikovsky’s Strings performance.
1 day ago · The programme includes the Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sentimiento from Danses Andalouses by Spanish composer Manuel Infante and a sonata for two violins by Hungarian-American ...
5 days ago · Richly scored, featuring one of his best-loved waltzes and an impossibly catchy Russian dance to round things off, Tchaikovsky's Serenade is one of the jewels of the string orchestra repertoire. Kindly supported by Eriadne & George Mackintosh and Claire & Anthony Tait.
