Tchaikovsky may have loathed it, but his 1812 Overture has just been voted the UK's most popular piece of classical music. The composer famously said it was "very loud and noisy and completely ...

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

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. With plenty of his great music played along the way – ‘Swan Lake’, ‘The Nutcracker’ and his ‘1812 Overture’ among them – John takes a look at what made Tchaikovsky such a ...