Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 is one of the most dramatic, emotional and heart-tearing works in the symphonic repertoire. Those defining qualities were heightened in the Houston Symphony’s impassioned ...

Symphony No. 4 Valery Gergiev, Conductor, Bass Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony No. 5 Valery Gergiev, Conductor, Bass Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre ...

Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' London Symphony Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda, Conductor Khovanshchina, Movements: Prelude, Act 1 (Dawn over the Moscow River) London Symphony Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda, ...

Tchaikovsky said his final symphony told a story, but he never revealed what that story was. More than a century later, ...

Editor’s Note: Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky was born on this day in May 7, 1840. Here’s a look at the brilliant composer’s complicated history: When the conductor Semyon Bychkov arrived at a ...