THE BASICS: JoAnn Falletta, Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, conducts the first of a two-weekend Tchaikovsky Festival (Part 2 will be Feb. 21-22). Tonight’s concert (this Saturday ...

Winner of the People’s Choice award and overall 2nd prizewinner of the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition, Rem Urasin’s brilliant performance of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto catapulted ...

Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov, a 20-year-old student at the Cleveland Institute of Music, today won first prize at the 14th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow – the biggest plum for a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ask the average music lover what they know of Tchaikovsky’s music and the answer is likely to be the big works, ...

When Russian shooter Vitalina Batsarashkina stood on the podium to celebrate her gold medal in shooting at the Tokyo Games, somewhere composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky was smiling. True, the famed Russian ...

Pianist Denis Matsuev may be one of the world's best pianists to interpret the music of Tchaikovsky, but his ear for Rachmaninoff is just as impressive. Russian pianist Denis Matsuev won the 11th ...

Though Tchaikovsky himself was only a competent pianist not a virtuoso, he enjoyed writing for the instrument throughout his life. On this recording of complete piano works you can sample all 122 ...

It's tempting to dismiss Nikolai Medtner without having heard a note of his music. Those who dismiss him as a less flamboyant Rachmaninov contemporary are making a huge mistake. Prokofiev enjoyed ...

An A-list team of performers makes a spirited, intermittently winning but finally unpersuasive case for Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A Minor. This oddly structured work consists of an expansive sonata ...

Alice Sara Ott shared a photo of her blood-stained piano, after what must have been *quite* a hardcore practice session of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 Alice Sara Ott is one of today's best-loved ...

Of all the classical music competitions around the world, Moscow’s four-yearly Tchaikovsky international competition is the big one, the “musical Olympics”, and the most politicised. Born in high ...