As a composer, conductor, arranger, producer, and singer/songwriter, Steve Hackman isn’t your everyday millennial multi-hyphenate. The 42-year-old has collaborated with Doja Cat, the Sunday Service ...
"Sleeping Beauty" ballet enchants with lavish sets, live orchestra and international stars at the King Center in Melbourne on ...
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 ...
A final summing up from me. Mixed feelings here, I have to admit, and I do share many of my colleague Paul's views on the week as a whole. Yes, sometimes there were moments when my brain felt like it ...
Valentina Lisitsa – who always brings such wild and passionate playing – presents what she assures us is the world’s first ever truly complete collection of Tchaikovsky’s solo piano works. And it’s a ...
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule By the standards of the second half of the 19th century, Tchaikovsky was ...
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule Yevgeny Onegin (Eugene Onegin) is the fifth of Tchaikovsky's 10 operas; ...
The singer, rapper and classical flutist name-checks a few of her symphonic heros, in an interview ahead of the 2020 Grammy Awards Lizzo's music is dominating the pop charts, and her messages of ...
Tchaikovsky’s only issue with his homosexuality was concern that public exposure would embarrass his family and friends (hence his hasty, doomed marriage). He was not tormented by what he called his ...
Some composers struggle to be heard, their music languishing unplayed and unloved on library shelves. Tchaikovsky has the opposite problem. His music is everywhere, and is loved by millions. His ...
Film scores should be treated as "serious" classical music, with modern composers doing a similar job as Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Puccini, a director of the Royal Albert Hall argues Natalie Wood and ...
Alexander II, 'the Liberator', succeeded to the Imperial throne of Russia in 1855, when Tchaikovsky was a teenager at school in the capital, St Petersburg. After successfully handling the immediate ...