Tchaikovsky personified the Romantic soul. Brought up far from music, he gave himself over at first to a career in law but his sensitivity and musical gifts rapidly took over. Aged twenty-two, he left his administrative post and met Anton Rubinstein with whom he undertook serious study of composition. His encounters with Balakirev and Rimsky-Korsakov were to be decisive for his musical orientation. Tchaikovsky then composed his first masterpieces: some symphonies, four operas and his first piano concerto, which has known unfailing success ever since its first performance in 1875.
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The violin virtuoso performs on 12 of the most ...
New Generation Piano Recital at the Fondation L...
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's 2019 season...
New Generation Piano Recital at the Fondation L...
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Konzerthaus Berlin
Iuliia Moskalenko (Clara), Ielizaveta Gogidze (...
Verbier Festival 2017
Amandine Albisson, Mathieu Ganio, François Alu ...
Berlin Philharmonic
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops
Verbier Festival 2011
Megan Fairchild, Joaquin De Luz, Adam Hendricks...
Anna Tsygankova (Clara), Matthew Golding (Princ...
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela –...
2010 Nobel Prize Concert
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
With the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra
Berliner Philharmoniker: 2001 New Year's Concer...
Birmingham Royal Ballet
Waldbühne 1997: St. Petersburg White Night
