Tchaikovsky's heartfelt piece is among the best he ever wrote. At the very time that Tchaikovsky was composing his nationalistic, powerful and undeniably noisy 1812 Overture, he was also writing this: ...

Tchaikovsky "Souvenir" in Studio 4A: The St. Lawrence String Quartet and two members of the Ying Quartet team up to play the third movement of Tchaikovsky's "Souvenir of Florence." It's also known as ...

Imagine being in the audience for the musical soirée at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1876 when Tchaikovsky met Tolstoy. For years afterwards the composer recalled how Tolstoy was so moved by the slow ...