Latest Release
- 7 MAY 2024
- 88 Songs
- Swan Lake - Single · 2021
- Best of Romantic Music · 2021
- Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto & 6 Romances · 2007
- Essentials, Vol. 1 · 2020
- The Best of Nordic Wind Ensemble · 2021
- Tchaikovsky: 1812 Ouverture, Op. 49 Solennelle - Hamlet (Fantasy Overture), Op. 67 · 2019
- Essentials, Vol. 1 · 2020
- Essentials, Vol. 1 · 2020
- Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake - Single · 2019
- Classical Lines · 1989
Essential Albums
- These live recordings demonstrate the quality Jurowski and his London Philharmonic Orchestra have achieved over years of working their way through Tchaikovsky’s symphonies in concert. Jurowski finds an ideal balance between the classical and the romantic, and he can manage sudden shifts of mood with apparent ease. He respects the letter of the score and doesn’t pull the music around, but it never feels straitjacketed. Everything sounds natural and organic, and often very intense. It’s a convincing and powerful approach.
- André Previn’s ’70s recordings of the Tchaikovsky ballets are a cornerstone of his widely followed conducting career. His lucid and flowing way with the LSO during Swan Lake shows precisely why: Beyond tending to the familiar melodies, Previn and his players lavish attention on the less familiar motifs and dances from the full work. Still, the showstopper moments come off well (check out the stomping “Coda” from the Act I “Pas de deux”), as do the tender moments (like violinist Ida Haendel’s solo during “Danses des cygnes”).
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- The composer of some of classical music's most popular works, and a real craftsman too.
- A master craftsman whose vast output contains numerous gems awaiting discovery.
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About Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky was a passionate poet of the heart, yet was also a master of his craft, creating masterpieces in the realms of symphony, concerto, opera and ballet. Born in 1840 to a nonmusical family, he enrolled against their will at what is now the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, becoming one of its first composition graduates. Under the guidance of the leader of the nationalist Mighty Handful, Balakirev, Tchaikovsky wrote, then rewrote, his first great masterpiece, the tone poem Romeo and Juliet (first published 1870, completed to his satisfaction in 1880). His innovative Piano Concerto No. 1, though scorned by its intended dedicatee, helped establish Tchaikovsky’s international celebrity with its successful 1875 world premiere in Boston. Just as groundbreaking was his opera Eugene Onegin (1878, revised 1885) with its remarkable Letter Scene. In his ballets Swan Lake (1876), The Sleeping Beauty (1889) and The Nutcracker (1892), he raised what had been a frivolous and mediocre genre to rarely matched heights, each ballet a model of symphonic coherence with beguiling melodies and inventive orchestration. Tchaikovsky also composed such works as the Rococo Variations (1876) and the opera The Queen of Spades (1890), celebrating an idealised 18th century in homage to both his beloved Mozart and to Saint Petersburg’s stately architecture. In 1893, at the height of his fame, Tchaikovsky fell ill and died unexpectedly, only days after he had conducted the premiere of his tragic Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”.
- HOMETOWN
- Votkinsk, Russia
- BORN
- 7 мая 1840 г.
- GENRE
- Classical