Tchaikovsky Plus One

Douglas, Barry

Genre: Classical

CD | 1 disc(s) | Release: 22-11-2018

Verwachte levertijd (in NL): +/- 7 tot 15 werkdagen

€ 20.95

Extra info

Extra info:	Works By Tchaikovsky-Seasons/Mussorgsky-Pictures At an
Maatschappij:	Play It Again Sam (PIAS)
Label:	Chandos
Barcode:	0095115199121
Suffix - prefix:	10991 CHAN
Herkomst:	Holland

Beschrijving

Barry Douglas (piano)

Two of the most popular romantic Russian piano works from the mid-1870s are heard on this new album from the celebrated Barry Douglas. Lyricism lies at the heart of the twelve movements of Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons (1875 – 76), commissioned by the periodical Nouvelliste to appear monthly, accompanied by poetic epigraphs. Tchaikovsky got his servant to remind him of his duty on a certain day in the month, and composed each piece in a single sitting. Each reflects characteristics of a different month, the style is simple, the mood introspective.

Mussorgsky:
Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version)

Tchaikovsky:
The Seasons, Op. 37b

"Musorgsky’s magnum opus requires pianism of dazzling virtuoso panache, and here Douglas is really in his element. He may not quite evoke the wild irascibility and devil-may-care unorthodoxy of the composer…Yet Douglas’s supreme technical ease and tonal control when the notes start flying – as in the ‘Ballet of the Chicks in their Shells’, ‘Limoges’ and (especially) ‘Baba Yaga’ – brings a special sense of frisson."
BBC Music Magazine - Christmas Issue 2018 **** (Performance) / ***** (Sound)

"I don’t know how long he has had these works in his repertoire but they sound like old friends, well played-in…There have been more viscerally thrilling Pictures than this from Horowitz and Richter down, but few with such musical and textual integrity…nothing to scare the horses, nothing exaggerated, no tinkering with the text, each section deftly characterised and using the full tonal and dynamic range of the piano."
Gramophone Magazine - December 2018