Tchaikovsky: His Life & Music

Despite his passionate, volatile and hypersensitive temperament, Tchaikovsky produced highly disciplined and enduringly popular music. Siepmann uses the words of the composer and his contemporaries to bring out his humanity, sensibility and humour, and sets out the cultural backgrounds behind Tchaikovsky's quest to reconcile the Western and Russian influences on his work.

Part of Naxos' Life and Music series, this illustrated biography of Tchaikovsky is accompanied by two audio CDs of recordings providing a representative selection of full movements from his works.