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It’s a slow trek across the snow in Valdimir Fedoseyev’s rendition of Tchaikovsky’s Winter Daydreams symphony. With a leaden pulse that never varies, the first
Neeme Järvi’s take on Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1 is fairly typical of this conductor–fast tempos and light textures, as well as an emphasis on the
Antal Dorati’s Mercury recordings helped put him on the map as a Tchaikovsky conductor and his years as a ballet conductor helped him win a
New recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto appear with such regularity these days that it’s easy to take them for granted. After all, what can any
According to an anecdote in Harold C. Schonberg’s Vladimir Horowitz biography, George Szell called Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto “a piece of s…”–and perhaps that’s true,
After a couple of relatively unimpressive releases in what should have been a fine Tchaikovsky cycle, Neeme Järvi and the Gothenburgers hit their stride and
The top half of Vladimír Valék’s Tchaikovsky Symphony cycle has a lot going for it. For starters there’s the remarkably fresh and well-groomed playing of
Mikhail Pletnev is one of the few major pianists dedicated to exploring Tchaikovsky’s lesser-known piano music, and no one does it better. The 18 pieces
Boris Belkin doesn’t shy away one bit from the showier aspects of Paganini’s echt-virtuoso Violin Concerto No. 1. Indeed, he’s only too happy to indulge
I think it’s a shame that the selling point for this new recording will not be the fact that it’s a fine performance of Tchaikovsky’s
