CD1 SYMPHONY NO.1 IN G MINOR OP.13 ‘WINTER DREAMS’ 1 I. Daydreams of a winter journey: Allegro tranquillo 12’59 2 II. Land of gloom, land of mist: Adagio cantabile, ma non tanto 11’07 3 III. Scherzo: Allegro scherzando giocoso 7’52 4 IV. Finale: Andante lugubre - Allegro moderato 11’32 5 1812 OUVERTURE 14’56 Festival Overture in E flat Op.49 Total time: 58’36 Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio Vladimir Fedoseyev (1–4) London Philharmonic Orchestra / Alexander Gibson (5) CD2 SYMPHONY NO.2 IN C MINOR OP.17 ‘LITTLE RUSSIAN’ 1 I. Andante sostenuto – Allegro vivo 12’26 2 II. Andantino marziale – quasi moderato 7’54 3 III. Scherzo: Allegro molto vivace 5’55 4 IV. Finale: Moderato assai 11’19 5 FRANCESCA DA RIMINI 26’16 Symphonic Fantasia in E minor after Dante TCHAIKOVSKY Total time: 64’13 Philharmonia Orchestra / Yuri Simonov CD3 SYMPHONY NO.3 IN D OP.29 ‘POLISH’ 1 I. Introduzione e allegro – Moderato assai (Tempo di 13’35 marcia funebre) – Allegro brillante 2 II. Alla tedesca – Allegro moderato e semplice 6’51 3 III. Andante elegiaco 9’51 4 IV. Scherzo: Allegro vivo 6’29 5 V. Finale: Allegro con fuoco (Tempo di pollaca) 10’53 6 HAMLET 19’02 Fantasy Overture for orchestra in F minor Op.67a Total time: 66’45 Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio Vladimir Fedoseyev CD4 SYMPHONY NO.4 IN F MINOR OP.36 1 I. Andante sostenuto – Moderato con anima 19’07 2 II. Andantino in modo di canzona 9’42 3 III. Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato 5’32 4 IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco 9’13 5 MARCH SLAVE OP.31 9’43 Total time: 53’19 London Symphony Orchestra Gennady Rozhdestvensky CD5 SYMPHONY NO.5 IN E MINOR OP.64 1 I. Andante – Allegro con anima 15’23 2 II. Andante cantabile con alcuna licenza – 13’25 Moderato con anima 3 III. Valse: Allegro moderato 5’50 4 IV. Finale: Andante maestoso – Allegro vivace 12’22 5 CAPRICCIO ITALIEN OP.45 16’40 Total time: 63’46 London Symphony Orchestra / Gennady Rozhdestvensky CD6 SYMPHONY NO.6 IN B MINOR OP.74 ‘PATHÉTIQUE’ 1 I. Adagio – Allegro non troppo 18’22 2 II. Allegro con grazia 7’24 3 III. Allegro molto vivace 9’23 4 IV. Finale: Adagio lamentoso – Andante 10’31 5 OVERTURE – THE STORM 14’16 Total time: 59’58 London Symphony Orchestra / Gennady Rozhdestvensky CD7 MANFRED SYMPHONY IN B MINOR OP.58 1 I. Lento lugubre 18’32 2 II. Vivace con spirito 9’56 3 III. Andante con moto 11’51 4 IV. Allegro con fuoco 19’20 5 ROMEO AND JULIET 20’28 Fantasy Overture after Shakespeare Total time: 80’20 Rod Elms organ (1–4) London Symphony Orchestra / Yuri Simonov (1–4) Kirov Theatre Orchestra / Yuri Temirkanov (5) CD8 HAMLET OP.67A Incidental Music for soprano, baritone & orchestra 1 Overture 9’38 2 Moderato assai 1’24 3 Allegro vivo 0’22 4 Moderato assai 0’31 5 Allegro giusto ed agitato 3’19 6 Allegro semplice 3’21 7 Fanfare 0’24 8 Andante quasi allegretto 4’27 9 Andante non troppo 6’36 10 Andantino ‘Elsinore’, Mad Scene 2’48 11 Andantino 0’55 12 Marcia: Moderato assai 4’48 13 Allegro giusto 0’22 14 Allegro risoluto ma non troppo 0’50 15 FATUM OP. POSTH. 77 Tonepoem for orchestra 18’56 Total time: 58’51 USSR State Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra (1–14) Grand Symphony Orchestra (15) Alexander Gauk CD9 THE SNOW MAIDEN (SNEGUROCHKA) Incidental Music to the play by Ostrovsky 1 Introduction 4’48 2 Dance and choruses of 5’40 the birds 3 Winter’s monologue 3’21 4 Carnival procession 7’05 5 Melodrama 2’00 6 Interlude 1’22 7 Lehl’s first song 3’56 8 Lehl’s second song 1’32 9 Interlude 3’11 10 Chant of the blind bards 4’00 11 Melodrama 4’09 12 Chorus of the people and 2’10 the courtiers 13 Round of the young maidens 2’25 14 Dance of the tumblers 4’40 15 Lehl’s third song 6’40 16 Brussila’s song 1’31 17 Apparition of the Spirit 0’50 of the Wood 18 Interlude – The Spring Fairy 4’30 19 Tsar Berendey’s march 6’40 and chorus 20 Final Chorus 1’50 Total time: 72’34 Natalia Erassova mezzo-soprano (7, 8, 15, 20) Alexander Archipov tenor (3) · Nikolai Vassiliev baritone (4, 10, 16) Russian State Chorus & Orchestra / Andrei Chistiakov CD10 ORCHESTRAL SUITE NO.1 IN D MINOR OP.43 1 I. Introduzione e Fuga 9’22 2 II. Divertimento 5’32 3 III. Intermezzo 7’44 4 IV. Marche miniature 1’58 5 V. Scherzo 6’48 6 VI. Gavotte 4’43 ORCHESTRAL SUITE NO.2 IN C OP.53 ‘SUITE CARACTÉRISTIQUE’ 7 I. Jeu de sons 9’51 8 II. Valse 5’40 9 III. Scherzo burlesque 5’00 10 IV. Rêves d’enfant 9’17 11 V. Danse baroque 4’03 Total time: 70’41 Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart / Sir Neville Marriner CD11 ORCHESTRAL SUITE NO.3 IN G OP.55 1 I. Élégie: Andante molto cantabile 10’07 2 II. Valse mélancolique: Allegro moderato 5’33 3 III. Scherzo: Molto vivace 4’37 4 IV. Tema con variazioni: Andante con moto 18’55 ORCHESTRAL SUITE NO.4 IN G ‘MOZARTIANA’ 5 I. Gigue: Allegro (Gigue K574) 1’36 6 II. Menuet: Moderato (Minuet K355) 3’47 7 III. Preghiera: Andante non tanto (Ave verum corpus K618) 3’47 8 IV. Thème et Variations: Allegro giusto 15’06 (Unser dummer Pöbel meint K455) Total time: 63’34 Hans Kalafusz violin Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart / Sir Neville Marriner CD12 SWAN LAKE OP.20 Abridged version by Riccardo Drigo 1 Introduction (Moderato assai) – No.1 Scène (Allegro giusto) – 5’45 2 No.2 Waltz (Tempo di valse) 6’45 3 No.4 Pas de trois 7’00 I Intrada (Allegro) – Andante sostenuto – Allegro semplice – Presto – Moderato – Allegro – Coda (Allegro vivace) 4 No.7 Subject 4’43 No.8 Dance with Goblets (Tempo di polacca) 5 No.10 Scene (Moderato) 2’36 6 No.11 Scene (Allegro moderato – 7’57 Allegro vivo) No.12 Scene (Allegro) 7’57 No.13 Dances of the Swans 7 I. Tempo di valse 2’16 8 V. Pas d'action: Odette et le 5’43 prince (Andante) 5’43 9 IV. Danse des petits cygnes 1’16 (Allegro moderato) 10 VI. Danse générale (Valse) 1’32 11 II. Odette solo (Moderato assai) 1’44 12 VII. Coda (Allegro vivace) 2’08 13 No.15 Scene (Allegro giusto) 2’54 14 No.17 Scene: Entrance and Waltz 3’34 of the Special Guests (Allegro – Tempo di valse) 15 No.18 Scene (Allegro – Allegro giusto) 1’53 16 No.21 Spanish Dance (Allegro non 2’17 troppo: tempo di Bolero) 17 No.22 Neapolitan Dance 2’22 (Allegro moderato – Andantino quasi moderato) 18 No.23 Mazurka 2’55 19 No.20 Danse hongroise (Czárdás) 2’28 20 No.5 Pas de deux 7’33 Intrada – Valse – Andante – Valse – Coda (Allegro molto vivace) Total time: 75’21 Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Ernest Ansermet CD13 SWAN LAKE OP.20 Abridged version by Riccardo Drigo 1 No.28 Scene (Allegro agitato – Allegro vivace) 2’01 2 No.29 Finale (Andante – Allegro agitato – Alla breve – 6’13 Moderato e maestoso) 3 VARIATIONS ON A ROCOCO THEME OP.33 16’17 Abridged edition by Wilhelm Fitzenhagen SYMPHONY NO.6 IN B MINOR OP.74 ‘PATHÉTIQUE’ 4 I. Adagio – Allegro non troppo 18’11 5 II. Allegro con grazia 7’05 6 III. Allegro molto vivace 8’47 7 IV. Finale (Adagio lamentoso – Andante) 9’44 Total time: 68’10 Maurice Gendron cello (3) Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet CD14 SLEEPING BEAUTY OP.66 1 Introduction (Allegro vivo – Andantino) 7’52 PROLOGUE: THE CHRISTENING No.1 March (Moderato) 2 No.2 Dance Scene 4’14 (Moderato con moto) No.3 Pas de six 3 Introduction – Adagio 4’14 4 Variation I: The Fairy of the 0’45 Crystal Fountain (Allegro moderato) 5 Variation II: The Fairy of the 0’35 Enchanted Garden (Allegro) 6 Variation III: The Fairy of the 0’56 Woodland Glades (Allegro moderato) 7 Variation IV: The Fairy of the 0’31 Songbirds (Moderato) 8 Variation V: The Fairy of the 0’57 Golden Vine (Allegro molto vivace) 9 Variation VI: The Lilac Fairy 0’57 (Tempo di valse) 10 Coda (Allegro giusto) 1’29 11 No.4 Finale 8’11 ACT 1: THE SPELL 12 No.5 Scene 6’36 (Allegro vivo – Moderato) 13 No.6 Waltz (Allegro: Tempo di valse) 4’20 14 No.7 Scene (Andante) 1’50 No.8 Pas d’action 15 Rose Adagio 6’06 (Andante – Adagio maestoso) 16 Dance of the Maids of Honour 1’58 and the Pages 17 Aurora’s Variation 2’38 (Ruggiero Ricci violin) 18 Coda (Allegro giusto) 3’38 19 No.9 Finale 5’39 Total time: 63’28 Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Ernest Ansermet CD15 SLEEPING BEAUTY OP.66 ACT 2: THE VISION 1 No.10 Entr’acte and Scene 2’46 (Allegro con spirito – Un poco più tranquillo) 2 No.11 Blind Man’s Buff (Allegro vivo) 1’40 No.12 Scene: Dances of the Courtiers 3 Scene 0’40 4 Dance of the Duchesses 0’50 (Minuet: Moderato con moto) 5 Dance of the Baronesses (Gavotte) 0’45 6 Dance of the Countesses 0’30 (Allegro non troppo) 7 Dance of the Marchionesses 0’40 (Allegro non troppo) 8 No.13 Farandole: Scene (Poco più vivo) – 1’35 Dance (Allegro non troppo) 9 No.14 Scene: Prince Florimund and the 4’40 Lilac Fairy No.15 Pas d’action 10 Pas d’action: Aurora and Florimund 5’00 (Andante cantabile) 11 Aurora’s Variation (Allegro con moto) 1’25 12 Coda (Presto) 1’20 13 No.16 Scene (Allegro agitato) 0’45 14 No.17 Panorama (Andantino) 2’50 15 No.19 Symphonic Entr’acte (The Sleep) and 4’15 Scene (Andante misterioso) No.20 Finale: The Awakening (Allegro agitato) ACT 3: THE WEDDING 16 No.21 March (Allegro non troppo) 2’20 17 No.22 Polonaise: Procession of Fairy-Tale 4’35 Characters (Allegro moderato e brillante) No.23 Pas de quatre 18 Introduction (Allegro non tanto) 1’31 19 Variation I: The Golden Fairy 1’00 (Allegro: Tempo di valse) 20 Variation II: The Silver Fairy 1’00 (Allegro giusto) 21 Variation IV: The Diamond Fairy 1’25 (Vivace) – Coda (L’istesso tempo) 22 No.24 Pas de caractère: Puss-in-Boots and 1’59 the White Cat (Allegro moderato) No.25 Pas de quatre 23 Introduction (Adagio) 2’15 24 Variation I: Cinderella and Prince 0’45 Charming (Allegro: Tempo di valse) 25 Variation II: The Bluebird and 0’45 Princess Florine (Andantino) 26 Coda (Presto) 1’30 27 No.26 Pas de caractère: Red Riding Hood 1’20 and the Wolf (Allegro