There are recordings of Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” that wring every last drop of gloom from the music. But I’m not sure that makes them more affecting than this intelligent, beautifully ...

Here the orchestra gives mature, vividly coloured performances of Tchaikovsky’s three Shakespearean concert overtures. Much of the playing generates the virile exuberance for which the orchestra ...

No one who listens to Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet can be in any doubt that this Russian composer certainly gives Rachmaninov a run for his money in the heart-on-your-sleeve stakes. Composed in 1869 ...

It features three works inspired by the Bard's plays: Romeo and Juliet ... to this CD while following the musical score, to make an accurate assessment of the performance. Tchaikovsky was ...

Tchaikovsky believed that his Fifth Symphony was a failure ... As a bonus, there's the well-loved Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, which Tilson-Thomas treats with verve, drama and sensitivity in all ...

Hoffman starts this romantic musical journey with Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. The "lush and sweeping" work, written in 1869, "set a standard in some ways for what we think of ...

Though “Romeo and Juliet” is often presented as a full-length ballet, usually set to music by Prokofiev, Mejia felt that Tchaikovsky's 30-minute overture embodies the essence of the play.

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It features three works inspired by the Bard's plays: Romeo and Juliet ... to this CD while following the musical score, to make an accurate assessment of the performance. Tchaikovsky was ...

Listen to programmes examining the life and works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.