Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
RUSSIAN, SOVIET & POST-SOVIET CONCERTOS A Discography Of CDs And LPs Prepared by Michael Herman Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Born in Kamsko-Votkinsk, Vyatka Province. A late starter in music, his professional training in music began with a theory class in 1861 with Nikolay Zaremba. He entered the Russian Musical Society's recently opened new music school, The St. Petersburg Conservatory. There he studied theory, composition, the piano, flute and organ and his most significant teacher was Anton Rubinstein. It did not take him long to absorb all the lessons the Conservatory had to teach him and he graduated as a fully formed composer who would become the most popular and, arguably, the greatest Russian composer of them all. In the remaining three decades of his life he would produce a plethora of music covering nearly all genres, including, opera, ballet, orchestral, chamber and vocal works, most of which remains constantly performed today. Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 (1874-5) Behzod Adburaimov (piano)/Juraj Valcuha/ Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Della RAI ( + Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3) DECCA CLASSICS 4785360 (2014) Valery Afanassiev (piano)/René Defossez/Belgian National Orchestra ( + Schubert: Piano Sonata in A) DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2530286 (LP) (1972) Hans Albin (piano)/Donald Lee/Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic ( + Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5, Brahms: Piano Concerto: No. 2, Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2, Dvorák: Piano Concerto and Grieg: Piano Concerto) TELDEC 2447642 XC (4 CDs) (1989) Géza Anda (piano)/Alceo Galliera/Philharmonia Orchestra ( + Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 and 2 Preludes) TESTAMENT SBT 1064 (1996) (original LP release: COLUMBIA 33CX 1156 Géza Anda (piano)/Sir Georg Solti/Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra (rec.
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