
Bernard Haitink’s 1978 reading of Tchaikovsky’s F minor Fourth Symphony is expertly played by the Concertgebouw and faithfully and atmospherically recorded by the Philips engineers.
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.
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
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
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
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
We all know this: debut albums come and go; young wizard violinists who for the most part all sound alike come and go; and certainly
Moscow, 1952. Not exactly the time and place for anyone in his right mind to want to be, but this recording makes you wish for
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
There are three Kempe Tchaikovsky Fifths: a Berlin Philharmonic studio recording from the late 50s (now on Testament), a Bavarian Radio live broadcast from 1974