Tchaikovky’s ballet The Nutcracker is now a staple of the holiday season. Less well-known is the famed Russian composer’s ...

this concerto presented a structure that was copied by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, and Prokofiev, to name but three, the one that came almost to define our notion of the “war-horse” piano concerto.

The young Ukrainian pianist talks about winning the Honens International Piano Competition, his love for Ukrainian music, and ...

Act 2 of Tchaikovsky's great ballet The Nutcracker and Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto, with soloist Boris Giltburg and the BSO's new Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth. Show more Act 2 of ...

Dvořák’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 33—his only in the genre—has been lambasted for being both too difficult and insufficiently virtuosic, as if its effect as a star vehicle is ...

Ferruccio Busoni, who died 100 years ago, was a globe-trotting, forward-thinking composer and teacher with a message of ...

Technically, neither No. 1 nor No. 2 was really the first: Beethoven had written another piano concerto (Wo04) aged 14. If some of the dates around the big concertos seem a little bit vague ...

Brahms' Symphony No. 3 and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto are masterpieces that reverberate deeply with our community. This concert showcases musical excellence and celebrates the enduring power of ...

One could hear Dvořák’s first essay in the concerto genre looking to Schumann and Liszt as models for concertos in a serious symphonic style. (Tchaikovsky’s celebrated Piano Concerto No. 1 was ...

First, stepping onto the soapbox. As we reach the Winter Solstice of 2024 in Knoxville’s arts and music world, we can definitely feel positive and optimistic about the achievements of individuals, ...

Champions of lesser-known and contemporary composers, the Fortuny Piano Trio presents a programme of music by Amy Beach and Joaquín Turina. They conclude the concert with Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio, an ...