Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule Programme music is instrumental music supplied with a literary "programme" ...

Tormented by a sexuality he could never openly express, the composer poured his anguish into his opera Eugene Onegin. As a new production hits the stage, its director reveals why it speaks to his own ...

Editor’s Note: Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky was born on this day in May 7, 1840. Here’s a look at the brilliant composer’s complicated history: When the conductor Semyon Bychkov arrived at a ...

Poor Tchaikovsky. This is the great composer who defined a new vision of Russianness in his music in the late 19th century, who created an entirely new form of music for dance in his revolutionary ...

Programme music is instrumental music supplied with a literary "programme" by the composer, or, more loosely, with an allusive title. After a period in which abstract generic titles like "sonata" or ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule "Pathétique" is the title suggested to Tchaikovsky for his Symphony No 6 in ...

"Pathétique" is the title suggested to Tchaikovsky for his Symphony No 6 in b minor, the day after the premiere on 28 October 1893. Tchaikovsky had spent the month ...