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 ...

Edgar B. Herwick III is the guy behind GBH’s Curiosity Desk, where he answers your questions and explores some of the everyday mysteries hiding in plain sight. Feedback? Questions? Story ideas? Reach ...

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 ...

The clever folk of Decostruttori Postmodernisti with some exceptionally poised, every so slightly idiosyncratic classical interpretations. Decostruttori Postmodernisti, who seem to specialise in being ...

The story of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 begins not with a flourish of triumph, but with a moment of crushing heartbreak. In 1874, the hopeful composer presented his freshly ...

Research by pianist Kirill Gerstein has revealed that the standardly performed version of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto differs substantially from what the composer actually wrote. It’s a shame ...

Spirited version from Russia of the great piano concerto. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 13 January 2014. The young Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov has been making quite a name for himself, winning ...

The chief attraction here, at least as far as budget-conscious collectors are concerned, is Taneyev’s ‘completion’ of the Andante and Finale, part of the concerto that Tchaikovsky had intended for ...

Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series, begun in 1991, has thrown light on a huge repertoire lying beneath the surface of the ubiquitous concertos by Liszt, Rachmaninov, Grieg, Chopin or Schumann.

Hear Van Cliburn's hit recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, recorded at Carnegie Hall on May 30, 1958, just six weeks after winning the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. In the 1950s, ...