Read by Jeremy Siepmann and others

Tchaikovsky is one of the most popular composers who ever lived.
He is also one of the most misunderstood, as both man and musician,
and looks destined to remain among the most controversial. Widely
misrepresented as an emotional voluptuary and typecast as a 'crazy
Russian genius', he was, in fact, a highly disciplined and masterly
craftsman of pronounced classical leanings, and a man whose volatile
and hypersensitive temperament was as much his friend as his enemy.
His life was lived at the extremes, and fuelled by passions of almost
every kind. This much is evident in his music, which plays a vital
part in this absorbing portrait, as do the words of the composer and
his contemporaries. Here we meet the composer in the context of his
times. We also meet a man of compelling humanity, sensibility and
humour.

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