Winter Daydreams: Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra share the seasonal freshness of Tchaikovsky’s magical First Symphony.

They shared the same birthday —May 7 — but that was about all. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms simply understood, felt and composed music very differently, and judged each other’s work ...

The University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra held its end-of-year performance on Sunday in The Clarice Smith Performing Arts ...

For the fifth year in a row, Alexander Academy of Performing Arts will present Tchaikovsky’s enchanting classical ballet “The ...

Tchaikovsky thought his Symphony No. 6 was the best thing he'd ever written - but this masterpiece was unremittingly bleak. All of Tchaikovsky's symphonies are mini-dramas in both human and musical ...

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B minor has been overshadowed by the composer’s untimely death just nine days after its premiere. But legends like these can distract us from the nuances of a piece ...

In light of Russia's invasion into Ukraine, many westerners are understandably doing their level best to distance themselves from President Vladimir Putin and those loyal to him. But some of those ...

Their relationship was passionate, intense, and they shared the most intimate details of their creative lives with one another. Without their mutual support, some of the greatest symphonies in the ...

Sometimes it takes a first-rate artist to breathe life into a second-rate piece of music. It all begins cozied up to a crackling fire in the month of January, where Lim finds much tenderness in ...

In 1891, headlines in The Sun hailed the great Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s only visit to Baltimore. “Great Tschaikowsky” and “One of the Master Composers of the Present Age,” streamed ...

Renee Montagne talks with Miles Hoffman about the history of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite. Hoffman is the violist of the American Chamber Players, and authored The NPR Classical Music Companion.