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1 Composer David Cieri's 84 BELLS to Have World Premiere in Barcelona with Marin Alsop With this recording, Mr. Bychkov champions a work that-compared to Tchaikovsky's numbered symphonies-is rarely ...

Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony London Philharmonic Orchestra/Jurowski (LPO 0009) £8.99 The LPO has been excelling under its principal conductor-designate, Vladimir Jurowski, the dynamic young Russian ...

Semyon Bychkov began his self-styled Tchaikovsky Project last autumn with a series of concerts in London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the initial release in a sequence of recordings with the ...

Every year or two, Seattle Symphony music director Gerard Schwarz presents a big work, often by a well-known composer and usually with chorus, which for whatever reason is rarely performed. This week, ...

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 ...