BBC3 年
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker - Trepak (Russian Dance); Waltz of the Flowers
A Waltz is a dance in with three beats in every bar. Can you count 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3 in time with the music? Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (pronounced PYOT-uhr il-YEETCH chigh-KOFF-ski) wrote some of ...
Tchaikovsky had Monty Python-style sense of humour, says musicologist
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was the first Russian composer whose work would make a lasting impression internationally, with Swan ...
BBC9 年
Tchaikovsky’s ‘Forgotten’ Symphony
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 ...