Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Written during a tumultuous period of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's life, his Fourth Symphony is a musical ...

Symphony No. 3, 'Polish' Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Neeme Järvi, Conductor (The) Voyevoda, Movements: Entr'acte Neeme Järvi, Conductor Gothenburg Symphony ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky by Nikolai Kuznetsov Oil on canvas, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky by Nikolai Kuznetsov We are born, and for a while at least we are at the centre of the ...

Stephen Johnson unpacks Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, the first of what was to become a trilogy of profound orchestral statements plundering the breadth of human emotion. Listen to programmes ...

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 begins darkly, the feeling of fate pressing in from all sides. But along the way, we meet some brass friends, hear a gorgeous oboe solo, and eventually ...

Tchaikovsky's father was a successful mining engineer while his mother was the artistic, sensitive one, French by birth, and a good linguist. Pyotr was the second of her six children. He had a good ...

Russia in the 1860s - the land without the symphony. Well, actually that's not quite true: Anton Rubinstein had written three, but, based in the language of Mendelssohn and Schumann, they propounded a ...

Somehow, over the past half-century and with hardly anyone noticing, the 19th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has become as integral to the Fourth of July as George Washington and ...