Can you count 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3 in time with the music? Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (pronounced PYOT-uhr il-YEETCH chigh-KOFF-ski) wrote some of the best known and most performed music of all time.

Adam Brody and Leighton Meester's home in Pacific Palisades has burned to the ground, while Hollywood is canceling and/or postponing premieres and awards shows. Lisa Kudrow belatedly finds note in ...

Tchaikovsky had hoped that his First Piano Concerto would be premiered by Director of the Moscow Conservatory, Nicolai Rubinstein, but that did not happen. Rubinstein repeatedly told the composer the ...

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Explore our guide to Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ – one of the world’s most popular ballets based on a romantic fairy tale. Right from the beginning, Tchaikovsky worked closely ...

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47 - I. Allegro moderato The cello’s plaintive timbre and great expressive range has often proved inspiring to composers creating music of heightened ...

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Waltz of the Flowers, from The Nutcracker Suite - Montreal SO (Decca 417 300) Saint-Saëns, Camille: Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor Op 61 (3) - Xue-Wei (vln), ...

For the 2nd concert of their Barbican stopover, Gustavo Dudamel and his orchestra are remembering home as the vibrant Latino vibes of Riccardo Lorenz and Gonzalo Grau encounter fate-full Tchaikovsky.

Albéniz, Isaac: Pray for the soul of a chieftan departed, - Madrid Symphony Chorus & Orch/José de Eusebio (Decca 473 937) ...