His works have, of course, become the property of the world, but is there still something to the notion that Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s music is inherently Russian?

Find out at the Orpheum on Saturday and Monday (March 21 and 23), when the brilliant young St. Petersburg native Yevgeny Sudbin joins the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to play the great Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor—and don’t forget to stick around for more musical caviar from Igor Stravinsky and Modest Mussorgsky.