When Russian shooter Vitalina Batsarashkina stood on the podium to celebrate her gold medal in shooting at the Tokyo Games, somewhere composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky was smiling. True, the famed Russian ...

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 ...

Pianist Natasha Paremski says she has trouble keeping Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in hand. "It's the kind of piece I always have in my fingers, because I played it for the first ...

The story of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 begins not with a flourish of triumph, but with a moment of crushing heartbreak. In 1874, the hopeful composer presented his freshly ...

Winner of the People’s Choice award and overall 2nd prizewinner of the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition, Rem Urasin’s brilliant performance of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto catapulted ...

A blazing and breathtaking Piano Concerto No. 1 by Peter Tchaikovsky with a Russian at the keyboard blew open the San Antonio Symphony’s classical series concert Friday night. Of course, the pianist ...

Pianist Stephen Hough has uncovered a mistake in the second movement of the manuscript, corrected in blue pencil on the score. Pianist Stephen Hough has uncovered a mistake in Tchaikovsky's Piano ...

Pianist Parker Van Ostrand, a San Francisco Conservatory of Music student, appreciates how his teachers Garrick Ohlsson and Yoshikazu Nagai let him interpret and make decisions about the pieces he ...

Hear Van Cliburn's hit recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, recorded at Carnegie Hall on May 30, 1958, just six weeks after winning the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. In the 1950s, ...

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The clever folk of Decostruttori Postmodernisti with some exceptionally poised, every so slightly idiosyncratic classical interpretations. Decostruttori Postmodernisti, who seem to specialise in being ...

As soon as soloist Yuja Wang stepped assuredly onstage in a body-hugging, skin-revealing azure concert gown, we knew we were in for something special at this Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra season ...