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The Ying Quartet’s aggressive and gritty Souvenir de Florence (which opens this set) sets the tone for its entire Tchaikovsky cycle. The players’ approach exemplifies
Joseph Kalichstein, Jaime Laredo, and Sharon Robinson offer a decidedly more melancholy Tchaikovsky Trio than we hear in impassioned readings by the Ashkenazy Trio on
After excellent accounts for Naxos of Tchaikovsky’s First and Third piano concertos, Konstantin Scherbakov and Dmitry Yablonsky offer an even finer sequel. Indeed, this performance
Recordings of Tchaikovsky symphonies are appearing less frequently since the great major label implosion of a few years ago, and the upside is that we
Bernard Haitink’s 1980 Manfred was the prize of his Concertgebouw/Tchaikovsky symphony cycle. Riccardo Chailly’s 1987 effort with the same orchestra, while very good, doesn’t quite
You know you’ve got a winner on your hands when a performance of a piece you know by heart and already own in dozens of
Recording-wise, André Previn’s tenure as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1985-89) was a largely successful one. The present disc is one of a
While not challenging the classic Tchaikovsky Fifth’s by Mravinsky, Szell, Muti, Jansons, or the more recent Gatti, Riccardo Chailly’s 1983 Decca version offers a first-rate
The back cover titles give no indication that tracks 1 through 5 are not “original” Tchaikovsky piano pieces, but rather are transcriptions from orchestral and
Eugene Ormandy’s 1962 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 7 enjoyed an all-too-brief life on CD before CBS/Sony banished it from its catalogue. This work, actually a reconstruction
