Perhaps it was only to be expected that Tchaikovsky would identify with Manfred, the Byronic hero whose spirit “walk’d not with the souls of men”. The “Manfred” Symphony has never attained the ...

Semyon Bychkov began his self-styled Tchaikovsky Project last autumn with a series of concerts in London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the initial release in a sequence of recordings with the ...

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The LPO’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s tortured Manfred symphony was exceptional from start to finish; soloist August Hadelich dazzled in the same composer’s Violin Concerto Tchaikovsky’s Manfred was ...

The aim of the South Bank's Revealing Tchaikovsky series, which ended last week, has been to stimulate broader recognition and understanding of a composer whose reputation in the concert hall rests on ...

It contains some of his most powerful music, and yet it has always been strangely neglected so that many concert goers are simply not aware of it. It should be enough - it is easily the largest of ...

The soulfulness of this Manfred finds concentration in the first movement, where Byron’s solitary hero traverses a dark, forbidding orchestral landscape entirely scored in the lowest registers (great ...

A blind test of Stradivarius violins in 1997 found that a panel of great violinists and an instrument dealer had difficulty differentiating Strads from other violins. The lesson, I suspect, is that ...

The small print is important here – and especially the phrase ‘historically informed’. The Orchestre della Svizerra Italiana continue their unique (I believe) Tchaikovsky journey under the baton of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick In a program of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, a guest conductor coaxes a sumptuous sincerity from the orchestra’s musicians. By Oussama ...

It should never have been by Tchaikovsky at all. His Russian colleague Balakirev was first in line to make a symphony of Byron's lonely Manfred, and he'd passed it to Berlioz. Only when the plan ...