Andris Nelsons' first recording as musical director of the City of Birmingham Symphony is an intriguing pairing of Tchaikovsky pieces written just a year apart, and offering a distinct impression of ...

Thursday the Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra will present its third Masterworks concert of the season, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. “(The concert) is a traditional format,” said Carolyn Keurajian, ...

Symphony No. 5 Andris Nelsons, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Hamlet Andris Nelsons, Conductor City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Pyotr Ilyich ...

Though Gustavo Dudamel's achievements with his remarkable young Venezuelans may be one of the musical wonders of our time, their charisma seems to work far better live than on disc. The collection ...

Tchaikovsky believed that his Fifth Symphony was a failure, but despite this it has become one of his most popular works. There are countless recordings of the symphony and it can be hard to know ...

(The) Sleeping Beauty, Movements: Excerpts Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra Arvid Jansons, Conductor Symphony No. 5 Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra Arvid Jansons, Conductor Back in September 1971 I ...

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This disc is something of a mission statement, albeit one expressed with considerable restraint. It marks the start of Andris Nelsons and the City of Birmingham Symphony's collaboration with the ...

In a pair of passionate performances, American composer Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 4 and Andante Cantabile, then leads the Boston Symphony ...

Forging a path that has consistently defied categorisation, the composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Joan Armatrading explores a new voice in writing for the orchestra. With a renowned catalogue ...

Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony is the middle of a last, great trilogy of symphonies whose musical ideas, the composer admitted, address great issues of Fate, Death, and Providence. Stephen Johnson ...