In 1878 Tchaikovsky dedicated his newly written Violin Concerto to the renowned violinist and teacher Leopold Auer, with the idea that Auer would perform the premiere of the work in March 1879.

In February 1877, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky claimed that he could compose only "weak and rotten little themelets." The next year he composed the brave and cheerful tunes of his Violin Concerto in D ...

On Thursday evening, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and music director Peter Oundjian played Tchaikovsky, Tchaikovsky and more Tchaikovsky. Such a concert carries with it the temptations of emotional ...

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will present Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto from the opening theme to its grand finale on April 28 and 30 at Music Hall. The performances, led by guest conductor Carlo ...

Nicola gave us an exclusive guide to one of the greatest pieces for violin and orchestra ever written. This Saturday evening, Alex James celebrates one of this country's finest virtuosos, Nicola ...

“Music is not illusion,” Tchaikovsky reportedly said, “but revelation.” Last evening at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, his Violin Concerto turned out to be exactly that – a revelation. Yes, it was, on paper ...

If a musician travels across an ocean just to play one piece of music, then that piece of music must be pretty great. Violinist Sharon Roffman said Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Violin Concerto” ...

Violinist Nigel Armstrong of Sonoma advanced to the finals of the XIV International Tchaikovsky Violin Competition in St. Petersburg last week, the most prestigious violin competition in the world. In ...

Violinist Gil Shaham (center) performs the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra under music director Robert Spano at Bass Performance Hall in downtown Fort Worth on ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. On her first-ever recording of Tchaikovsky's ...

In musical performances, some mishaps occur in the heat of playing while others result from miscalculations made well in advance. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s concert Thursday night at Symphony ...