RUSSIAN, SOVIET & POST-SOVIET SYMPHONIES Pyotr Tchaikovsky
RUSSIAN, SOVIET & POST-SOVIET SYMPHONIES 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. Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13 "Winter Daydreams" (1866, rev. 1874) Claudio Abbado/Chicago Symphony Orchestra ( + Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, Nutcracker Suite, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, 1812 Overture, The Voyevoda and Marche Slave) SONY CLASSICAL 8869783672-2 (6 CDs) (2011) (original CD release: SONY CLASSICAL SK 48056) (1992) Maurice Abravanel/Utah Symphony Orchestra ( + Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Manfred Symphony, Francesca da Rimini, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, 1812 Overture and Marche Slave) VOX BOX CD5X 3603 (5 CDs) (2001) (original release: VOX BOX QSVBX-5129 {3 LP}) (1976) Andrei Anikhanov/St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra ( + Romeo and Juliet) AUDIOPHILE CLASSICS 101.028 (1995) Vladimir Ashkenazy/NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo EXTON OVCL-00266 (2006) Enrique Bátiz/Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México ( + Symphony No.
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