The first might be the most famous tune ever written. Everyone knows this one as “Pomp and Circumstance.” However, it is only the first of six pomp and circumstance marches written by Edward Elgar.

It contains some of his most powerful music, and yet it has always been strangely neglected so that many concert goers, familiar with the canon of Tchaikovsky’s six numbered symphonies ...

Lemn Sissay explores Tchaikovsky's music from The Nutcracker with beautiful animation. The story of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King was transformed into a magical ballet in 1892 – and is now a ...

“Iolanta” shared its premiere, in December of 1892, with a ballet you may have heard of, “The Nutcracker.” Of Tchaikovsky’s music, that score’s only competitor as a hatcher of earworms is “The 1812 ...

Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music, dramatic operas, and passionate songs took inspiration from art and literature. Famous Romantic composers include Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mahler, and Verdi – ...

“Some are completely over the top, a kind of Monty Python ... in his life and his love, and his music is thus reduced to the sound of suffering.” Tchaikovsky is widely accepted today as ...

Russia’s war in Ukraine has cast a deep shadow this year over the International Tchaikovsky ... borders in music.” A female musician from China said, “This competition is famous in China ...