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At 38 minutes, Viktoria Postnikova’s Tchaikovsky First Concerto is one of the slowest versions on disc. What’s more, it sounds even slower! The first movement
The Sleeping Beauty is the greatest of Tchaikovsky’s three ballets, containing all of the composer’s stylistic hallmarks: exquisite melodies, colorful orchestration, rhythm, drama, and passion,
Britten’s performance of Romeo and Juliet is superb and highly unusual. He deploys his chamber orchestra (meaning in this case a smaller than usual string
This disc contains the CD premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s 1958 recording of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth. The Royal Edition previously offered his remake of a decade later,
Toscanini’s live “Pathétique” Symphony from April 1941 seems to have all the requisites that distinguish a great performance of this work. The unsentimental yet dramatic
Recorded live in concert at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, December 1986, the Richter-Kagan-Gutman Tchaikovsky trio has circulated on an impossible-to-find Japanese Laser Disc, which
While the piano was not central to Tchaikovsky’s creative identity, the composer turned out a large number of short works for the instrument when he
As suggested by his Chicago Symphony Orchestra recordings from the early 1950s, Rafael Kubelik has a special intensity that was still very much present in
These performances from David Zinman’s final quintet of seasons with the Baltimore Symphony are clearly intended to show off their now-departed Music Director in mainstream
Willem Mengelberg belonged to a generation of Tchaikovsky conductors like Koussevitsky and Stokowski, who brought out the emotional tension in these works through frequent tempo
