Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was Russia’s symphonist of exquisite, fastidious agony. Both the fourth and fifth of his six symphonies follow the composer as he squirms under the boot of a crushing-fate ...

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 ...

It is a remarkable fact that among all the recordings that the CBSO made under its distinguished conductors Simon Rattle and Sakari Oramo there is not a single Tchaikovsky symphony. Now this omission ...

In a letter to his friend about his Violin Concerto, Edward Elgar wrote, "I have the Concerto well in hand... and it's good! Awfully emotional! Too emotional but I love it." Violinist Christian ...

Kicking off with Market Street, 1920s, a thrilling new work by Principal Trombone Timothy Higgins, Spanish conductor Gustavo Gimeno returns to lead the San Francisco Symphony in a real dopamine hit of ...