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 ...

Austrian maestro Herbert von Karajan conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in this 1984 performance of Tchaikovsky's last completed work -- Symphony no. 6 in B minor ("Pathétique"), op. 74 -- recorded live ...

In 28 days it began. In 28 weeks it spread. In 28 years it evolved.

Tchaikovsky’s Sixth, his final, and arguably greatest symphony, is a masterwork that subverts easy interpretation. It is, as the name suggests, rich in feeling. But the French translation of its title ...

That makes this autumn’s new recordings all the more welcome. No sooner has Yunchan Lim given us Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons ...

Sometimes it takes a first-rate artist to breathe life into a second-rate piece of music. It all begins cozied up to a crackling fire in the month of January, where Lim finds much tenderness in ...

Taking stock of the thicket of concerts descending on the Santa Barbara scene thus far in the fall, some of the most memorable nights out have featured celebrated and seasoned women, still making ...

Three soloists, three standing ovations -- such was the score last night as the Kennedy Center celebrated the beginning of its month-long Tchaikovsky Festival with a gala concert. Leonard Slatkin led ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. The 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—still popular today for such works as ...