Carnegie Hall’s opening in 1891 is inextricably linked with Tchaikovsky, who timed his only North American tour to coincide with the Hall’s Opening Week Music Festival. The last work he conducted at the Hall was his First Piano Concerto, which Herbert von Karajan recorded in 1967 with pianist Alexis Weissenberg and the Berlin Philharmonic. Full of passion, lyricism, and technical bravura, the concerto became Tchaikovsky’s first work to achieve widespread acclaim on this side of the Atlantic.

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