The University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra held its end-of-year performance on Sunday in The Clarice Smith Performing Arts ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. Karabits and Nelsons are thirty-something conductors who grew up on the fringe of the Soviet empire – ...

Paavo Järvi and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra continue their exploration of Tchaikovsky with the neglected Second Symphony and the iconic Fourth. The first movement of the Second often outstays its ...

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 ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed his Fourth Symphony, the Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, between 1877 and 1878, dedicated to his patroness and 'best friend' Nadezhda von Meck. Following his ...

As a symphonist, Tchaikovsky enriched the repertoire and exerted a vital influence on later composers as diverse as Sibelius, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Of his first three symphonies, the second ...

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Orchestra has released its first recording of 2025 as part of the orchestra's partnership with Apple Music Classical. The streaming-exclusive release features performances of ...

Stephen Johnson unpacks Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, the first of what was to become a trilogy of profound orchestral statements plundering the breadth of human emotion. Listen to programmes ...