Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule Most of what we know about Tchaikovsky's personal life is gleaned from his letters - unsurprisingly, since around 5000 of them have survived.

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 ...

Debussy would remember it later in the song L'échelonnement des haies from 1891.The piece exhibits some traits of Tchaikovsky's salon style and von Meck actually sent the manuscript to ...

It wasn’t until the concerto began that the real magic started to unfold. The orchestra commenced with Tchaikovsky’s notoriously difficult Violin Concerto, which — until it was tackled by ...

Shroud is an utterly gripping story of alien encounter and survival from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time, and paints a grim and grotesque vision ...