Perhaps it was only to be expected that Tchaikovsky would identify with Manfred, the Byronic hero whose spirit “walk’d not with the souls of men”. The “Manfred” Symphony has never attained the ...

Semyon Bychkov began his self-styled Tchaikovsky Project last autumn with a series of concerts in London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the initial release in a sequence of recordings with the ...

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The aim of the South Bank's Revealing Tchaikovsky series, which ended last week, has been to stimulate broader recognition and understanding of a composer whose reputation in the concert hall rests on ...

Music Director Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, with Reference Recordings, are pleased to announce the release of a new recording in superb audiophile, pairing Tchaikovsky's ...

It contains some of his most powerful music, and yet it has always been strangely neglected so that many concert goers are simply not aware of it. It should be enough - it is easily the largest of ...

There is much here to build upon the promise of Bychkov’s Pathétique ‑ the exceptional performance which launched this ongoing ‘Tchaikovsky Project’ (10/16). There is, of course, the abiding warmth ...

A blind test of Stradivarius violins in 1997 found that a panel of great violinists and an instrument dealer had difficulty differentiating Strads from other violins. The lesson, I suspect, is that ...

Manfred Honeck wants to clear something up about his new CD of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony: ‘This is a live recording. In fact, it was my debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony in 2006. I had to ask ...

It should never have been by Tchaikovsky at all. His Russian colleague Balakirev was first in line to make a symphony of Byron's lonely Manfred, and he'd passed it to Berlioz. Only when the plan ...