Paradoxically, although Tchaikovsky is really popular, a lot of his finest music is little known. That is undeniably true of the so-called Manfred Symphony, which secures from Semyon Bychkov and the ...

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Some of the emotional turmoil and unresolved conflicts of Russian composer Peter Tchaikovsky's own life may be reflected in his large programmatic Manfred Symphony of 1885. The work was inspired by ...

It contains some of his most powerful music, and yet it has always been strangely neglected so that many concert goers are simply not aware of it. It should be enough - it is easily the largest of ...

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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Reference Recordings presents Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 in an exquisite ...

Perhaps it was only to be expected that Tchaikovsky would identify with Manfred, the Byronic hero whose spirit “walk’d not with the souls of men”. The “Manfred” Symphony has never attained the ...

Between his 4th and 5th symphonies, Tchaikovsky composed his unnumbered "Manfred Symphony" in 1885. The Symphony was inspired by the 1817 Lord Byron dramatic poem "Manfred" in which the title ...

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Erika Kirk Takes On the Podcast Conspiracy-Mongers with Grace Audio By Carbonatix On Wednesday, March 28, New York had the unusual experience of a Russian conductor with a German orchestra: Kirill ...

It should never have been by Tchaikovsky at all. His Russian colleague Balakirev was first in line to make a symphony of Byron's lonely Manfred, and he'd passed it to Berlioz. Only when the plan ...