For many years, when it was heard at all, Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto was played in the edition by Alexander Siloti that was published after the composer’s death. He had made a small cut to ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Michael Stern, Conductor Eldar Nebolsin, Piano Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Concert Fantasia New Zealand Symphony Orchestra ...

Two years ago, there was a real buzz around Auckland Town Hall when Eldar Nebolsin and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra played Tchaikovsky's Second Piano Concerto. As if the performance itself ...

Classic FM Album of the Week, starting Monday 23 November 2015 after 10am. This the first recording that rising star Mélodie Zhao has made with a full orchestra - and it's an ambitious one, too. But ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Vasily Petrenko, Conductor Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Simon Trpceski, Piano Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 ...

Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series, which first saw the light of day 20 years ago, here reaches its 50th issue. But Hyperion has moved in unexpected ways, and has only now, 120-something pieces ...

Garrick Ohlsson wouldn't need to learn new music. So vast is his repertoire, so compelling is his artistry, the pianist probably could sell out concert halls simply playing from memory. And yet when ...

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 ...

2015 is the 175th anniversary of Tchaikovksy’s birthday. It is also 140 years since the premiere of that great warhorse, his Piano Concerto No 1. In his first disc with an orchestra – the first of ...

It's among the most popular works in the entire classical repertoire, a favourite of concert pianists headlining with symphony orchestras the world over. Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B-flat Minor, ...

Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky’s famed 1812 Overture was first performed, outdoors, at the base of the majestic Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. His beloved ballet, the Nutcracker, was introduced ...