Valery Gergiev is widely recognised as the greatest modern interpreter of Tchaikovsky’s music and the Mariinsky holds a peerless reputation in the repertoire. Together they deliver definitive ...

Strip away sentimentality and there is a taut argument at the heart of each of Tchaikovsky’s mature symphonies. Vasily Petrenko has worked assiduously with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra ...

Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. John Suchet's Album of the Week. Picture: Classic ...

Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' London Philharmonic Orchestra Karina Canellakis, Conductor It’s nearly a decade since Vladimir Jurowski completed his Tchaikovsky symphony cycle with the London ...

Symphony No. 4 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Vasily Petrenko, Conductor Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Symphony No. 3, 'Polish' Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Liverpool ...

Tchaikovsky wrote of his Fourth Symphony that “None of my earlier works for orchestra has given me such trouble, but on none have I lavished such love and devotion”. Vasily Petrenko and the Royal ...

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and their Russian chief conductor Vasily Petrenko have an instinctive rapport, audible in the electrifying first volume in this series (Symphonies 1, 2, 5).

In a pair of passionate performances, American composer Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 4 and Andante Cantabile, then leads the Boston Symphony ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As anyone will know who has heard St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra with its artistic director, they have a ...

Gergiev is less a conductor than an elemental force, fortunately a very musical one. This three-CD set of Tchaikovsky's last three symphonies is characteristically powerful. Russians claim that ...