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Mahler has gained acceptance. The Fifth Symphony's adagietto was conducted by Bernstein at President John F. Kennedy’s ...

Schmaltz oozed around the orchestra in the second movement, titled “Land of desolation, land of mists”, as serene strings ...

Eugene Onegin is a monumental work that brings together the lyrical depth of Alexander Pushkin's narrative poetry and the ...

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 ...

John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no 4, after Hans Abrahamsen’s delicate Horn Concerto, Sibelius’s symphonic fantasia Pohjola’s Daughter and Schumann’s ...

Tchaikovsky only wrote three complete string quartets. Astonishingly the first was written in just a few weeks, when he realised he needed more material for a concert of his chamber music at the ...

Cellist Tristen Johnson, The Galvin Cello Quartet with Sydney Lee, Luiz Fernando Venturelli, Sihao He, Haddon Kay, and James Baik, and cellists Noah Lee, Rebekah Yang, and Naom Ginsparg perform works ...