Tchaik Sleeping

This live Royal Festival Hall performance took place just days before Rozhdestvensky and the BBC Symphony made their celebrated recording of the complete Sleeping Beauty.

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Tchaikovsky Sonatas/RS C

Although the C-sharp minor sonata carries a higher opus number than Tchaikovsky’s better-known G major sonata, it’s actually one of the composer’s earlier works for

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Tchaik Cherevicki

In 1874 Tchaikovsky composed an opera, Vakula the Smith, that like many of his operatic works, failed with the public. Years later in 1885, Tchaikovsky

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Tchaikovsky Strings

Now this is more like it! So many recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence sextet in string orchestra arrangement make it sound like a Mantovani

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Tchaik/Sibelius

Václav Hudecek’s bracing account of the Tchaikovsky concerto makes it easier to understand how this great work could have offended the refined sensibilities of Eduard

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Solomon Tchaik

If a no-name pianist and fair-to-middling conductor and orchestra turned in a recording of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto like this today, no one would give

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