Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings: Homage to Mozart and Elegy for a Departed Father

TchaikovskySerenade for StringsTchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings has been 145 years since its public premiere (October 30, ...
The Tech

BSO’s ‘The Nutcracker’ and ‘Eugene Onegin’ previews January Tchaikovsky festival

The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s (BSO’s) program from last weekend made a convincing case that, lest no other composer, Tchaikovsky can. On Oct. 17, the BSO performed two contrasting pieces from ...

Tchaikovsky's own voice has survived—The true faces of composers recorded by the phonograph in 1890

Please take a look at the translated version of their interesting conversation.Rubinstein: What a wonderful thing (the ...
The Guardian

Tchaikovsky: where to start with his music

This week we turn to the Russian composer who poured his passion and his pain into a body of works - from ballets to symphonies - that put his country on the international musical map Pyotr Ilyich ...
Wall Street Journal

Why Do We Still Love Tchaikovsky?

‘Beloved Friend” is the phrase Russian icon Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) used to address his benefactress, Nadezhda von Meck, during their long, epistolary relationship. By mutual consent, the ...
The Guardian

Tchaikovsky was not tragic but had a ‘Monty Python’ sense of humour, says biographer

A new book claims that the Russian composer is not the tormented genius he is portrayed as, but a fun-loving man with ‘a fabulous life’ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has long been portrayed as a ...
Politico

In Tchaikovsky’s bible, an archivist finds a door to New York’s distant past

In May of 1891, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was on his way to Niagara Falls when, changing trains in Utica, he composed a letter to his brother, Modest, that read in part: “ginger bread and toy soldiers ...
Classic FM

Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony is one of the greatest pieces ever written: and here's exactly why

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B minor has been overshadowed by the composer’s untimely death just nine days after its premiere. But legends like these can distract us from the nuances of a piece ...
The Financial Times

Tchaikovsky’s Wife film review — febrile story of musical genius loses its composure

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The title Tchaikovsky’s Wife may suggest a biopic, but the words are more like a job description for the most thankless ...
NPR

How Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' Became A Holiday Tradition

Renee Montagne talks with Miles Hoffman about the history of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite. Hoffman is the violist of the American Chamber Players, and authored The NPR Classical Music Companion.
Variety

‘Tchaikovsky’s Wife’ Review: Kirill Serebrennikov’s Perplexing, Music-Free Biopic Bungles a Great Subject

Back when art-house movies played full-time in art houses, “Tchaikovsky’s Wife,” at least on paper, might have seemed a film of middlebrow commercial hooks — the sort of movie that would have slipped ...