You probably recognize the opening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Those four insistent notes. There’s a symphony by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky that starts with the same driving intensity, so intense ...

If Pandora and Spotify existed in the time of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, what might be on his playlists? That’s the musical question conductor David Alan Miller is exploring with Sarasota Orchestra’s ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Orchestra has released a new spatial audio recording of Julius Eastman’s Symphony No. 2 and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2, led by music director Franz ...

Somehow, over the past half-century and with hardly anyone noticing, the 19th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has become as integral to the Fourth of July as George Washington and ...

“BELOVED FRIEND”—Catherine Drinker Bowen & Barbara von Meek—Random House ($3). Any musician runs the risk of being thought queer, but Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ran a bigger risk than most. Just how ...

Tchaikovsky, a gay icon in music, has beguiled generations of listeners with major works in all genres. A startling number have found permanent places in the repertory, but there’s more where that ...