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Tchaikovsky’s Quartet No.2 is typical of its composer without being a masterpiece. Quartet No.3, however, is just that, with its magnificent slow movement including an impressive evocation of Russian ...

Imagine being in the audience for the musical soirée at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1876 when Tchaikovsky met Tolstoy. For years afterwards the composer recalled how Tolstoy was so moved by the slow ...

The Pueblo-based Veronika String Quartet opens its 25th anniversary season with two concerts this weekend featuring music by Russian composers. The quartet plays at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Ascension ...

Tchaikovsky might be remembered for his three major ballets or the three last symphonies but not for his three string quartets. Yet although Tchaikovsky is not particularly associated with chamber ...

Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 2 in F, Op.22; String Sextet in D minor “Souvenir de Florence,” Op.70 Vermeer Quartet, with Rami Solomonow, John Sharp (Cedille). Chicago is fortunate to have as ...