The first concert in the Signature Symphony's "A Year With Tchaikovsky" will showcase a piece by Tchaikovsky that isn't quite by Tchaikovsky. The Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, is all ...

Tchaikovsky never wrote a cello concerto, but the “Variations on a Rococo theme” is a close second. The main theme is a Tchaikovsky original, but it's deeply steeped in his love for Mozart and the ...

The Richmond Symphony, in the second of this season’s Metro Collection programs on Sunday at Randolph-Macon College, pondered the meaning of existence for about 6½ minutes, came to no firm conclusion, ...

Tchaikovsky couldn't find just the right sort of melody from 18th Century France, so he wrote his own for his Variations on a Rococo Theme. We'll enjoy them during our music this evening beginning at ...

If it looks like a cello concerto and sounds like a cello concerto...it might not actually be a cello concerto. Misha Maisky plays non-concerto set of Variations known as the "Variations on a Rococo ...