A truncated version of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture,” conducted by its first Music Director, Nikolai Sokoloff, was first ...

The 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—still popular today for such works as The Nutcracker and the 1812 ...

Find out how pulse and rhythm work. Hear the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra playing the 1812 Overture and meet an animated Tchaikovsky in our Bitesize article on What are dynamics? Let Beethoven ...