
This release is from a series of SACDs that feature Telarc’s early Soundstream (stereo, not multi-channel) digital recordings, now for the first time heard at
If you want a performance of Tchaikovsky’s first truly great symphony that goes for the jugular to the exclusion of all other qualities, this powerful
This 1967 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto is more or less contemporaneous with Itzhak Perlman’s other recording made with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony (type Q7689
Available internationally for the first time on CD, Lorin Maazel’s Tchaikovsky Third Suite always has been one of his finest recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic.
On first hearing, this recording of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth registered disappointment as it fell short of Mravinsky’s reference version on DG with the Leningrad Philharmonic. But
Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra emphasize the dark and dramatic side of Tchaikovsky in this stunning new recording of the Pathetique. The long-held pauses
What on earth is Philips up to? Valery Gergiev’s Kirov Pathétique is one of the best modern recordings, and it comes with a considerable bonus
Party record alert! This stupifyingly dull record is appalling. Roger Norrington claims in his notes that there was no such thing as continuous vibrato in
Second-place winner Rem Urasin also garnered the People’s Choice Award in the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition. He certainly sounds as if playing to the
In a brief booklet note conductor Ivan Fischer writes that “Tchaikovsky’s heroes are led, guided, and torn apart by intense, unavoidable forces and feelings. And