The Piano Trio - piano, violin and cello - had been a popular form in Western Europe since at least the time of Haydn's Trios in the 1760s. But even by the late 19th century the form never caught hold ...

A logical coupling of two Russian chamber works, played by a young Italian trio. The massive scale of Tchaikovsky’s A minor trio will surprise the unwary. A few years before its completion in 1882, ...

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 ...

There's a left field vintage recording of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique conducted by Otto Klemperer, a reading totally devoid of hysteria, complete with a laughably slow third movement march. It's ...

Van Cliburn first gained worldwide attention when he won the first International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow at 23. Cliburn died at home at the age of 78 after a battle with bone cancer.

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The Fort Worth Symphony’s season-opening all-Russian festival at Bass Performance Hall, devoted entirely to the music of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, offered obvious box office appeal as well as ...

Master pianist Van Cliburn reflects on his historic victory at the 1958 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow and on the vitality of the classical arts. April 1958, a young Texan named Van Cliburn ...

The poet T.S. Eliot predicted the world would end not with a bang, but with a whimper. The Allentown Symphony Orchestra’s all-Tchaikovsky program at Miller Symphony Hall last weekend, however, not ...