Brief history of of Tchaikovsky's life: the beginning of his rise to fame.
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A Russian pianist has played to an empty concert hall with the hope to support those in isolation during the coronavirus pandemic.

The event was backed by the Russian Ministry of Culture, seeing musician Denis Matsuev play out to empty seats during a live broadcast of his show at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, in Moscow, on Friday.

The country has been advised to suspend public events due to Covid-19, but that hasn’t stopped the 44-year-old from trying to bring joy to those stuck indoors.

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If you’re going to ruin a New Year's Eve performance by punk singer and performance artist Amanda Palmer by failing to switch your mobile phone to ‘silent’, you should understand there will be consequences.

In this case, the mobile phone belonged to a track-suited man, who was quickly given up by his fellow audience members. His punishment? To complete Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 while Palmer quaffed her New Year's Eve champagne.

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A performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, as played by a young American in Moscow in 1958, has never been forgotten in the former Soviet Union.

The pianist, Van Cliburn, who died at the age of 78 on February 27 in Texas, was competing at the time in the first-ever International Tchaikovsky Competition.

Just 23 years old, he was a long-shot entry. But right from the start it became clear that despite the great divide between Soviet citizens and Americans, something special was happening.

By the time the competition was drawing to a close, Cliburn was the audience favorite, not just in Moscow but across the Soviet Union, as the event was broadcast on state radio. When the judges announced Cliburn had won, music lovers celebrated openly, despite the official chill in Soviet-U.S. relations.

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