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French pianist Alexandre Kantorow and conductor Jérémie Rhorer make successful debuts with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. 

Alexandre Kantorow dazzles in Tchaikovsky's Second Piano Concerto with Kent Nagano and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

Think of a poet irresistibly teasing your senses by his creative use of rhythm, his unpredictable style of speech and his unfailing imagination.

The RPO were on ripe form in works that still need such fine advocacy, and which deserved a much larger audience.

Semyon Bychkov and Yefim Bronfman try to bring new relevance to Tchaikovsky's music.

Bronfman attacked the concerto with alacrity and a capacity to draw sound from the piano which was breathtaking.

The flagship National Youth Orchestra of Scotland delights the home crowd in a Road to the Proms concert with impressive dance from Romeo and Juliet, the complete Firebird and an astonishing performance of Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto.  

To celebrate another landmark season, San Diego Symphony Music Director Jahja Ling brought forth a multifaceted program featuring star Chinese pianist Yuja Wang.

Although nominally a Polish Festival celebrating the music of Frédéric Chopin, there was lots of Tchaikovsky on offer at this year’s event. Leading the foreign charge was the Russian National Orchestra under the direction of their mercurial maestro Mikhail Pletnev.

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra presented not one but two gigantic works of Tchaikovsky in a packed Town Hall in Leeds.

The Sydney Symphony concluded their mini Russian series with an all-Tchaikovsky concert featuring one of his lesser-known concertos and a most beloved symphony.The first half was devoted to his Piano Concert no. 2 in G major, less recognisable than his first with its opening crashing chords, but every bit as endearing and lyrical.

The moment I walked into the Avery Fisher Hall on Monday night, a pervasive air of festivity was palpable – the players in the orchestra wore white jackets, lighting was colourful and the audience was chatty.

Overshadowed by far better-known and more frequently performed companions in his oeuvre, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 2 in G and the Manfred Symphony have received their fair share of criticism. Their length and stylistic oddities require strong force of will to pull off in performance – some performers (such as pianist Alexander Siloti) have gone so far as to make their own amendments.