Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Anspruchsvolle Noten

Der slawische Marsch, Tschaikowskis Opus 31, wurde 1876 komponiert und entstand im Auftrag der Russischen Musik-Gesellschaft für ein Benefiz-Konzert des Roten Kreuzes zugunsten der Opfer des serbisch-...

Marked allegro giusto, this familiar classic will keep better players on their toes as they execute a mix of tutti passages and offset entrances. In the final half of the coda, the flute part calls fo...

Clarinet & Strings

Clarinet & Strings

The idea of a 'Hamlet overture' had first occurred to Tschaikowsky in 1876. However, by 1888 he had altered these plans when he was asked to write incidental music for a production of Shakespeare's pl...

The idea of a 'Hamlet overture' had first occurred to Tschaikowsky in 1876. However, by 1888 he had altered these plans when he was asked to write incidental music for a production of Shakespeare's pl...

The Dance Of The Jesters was composed as incidental music for the ballet The Snow Maidens. The ballet is not based on the Hans Christian Andersen story, but on a contemporary Russian fantasy-play Sneg...

Tschaikovsky composed his 'Concerto for Violin and Orchestra' in the spring of 1878. The work does have a rocky beginning, somewhat like that of his first Piano Concerto. The premiere was both somewha...

Tschaikovsky composed his 'Concerto for Violin and Orchestra' in the spring of 1878. The work does have a rocky beginning, somewhat like that of his first Piano Concerto. The premiere was both somewha...

The fourth movement (Finale) of Pyotr Ilych Tschaikowsky's fifth symphony, beginning and ending as a triumphal march, might be thought to represent the victory of the will, since the fate theme of the...