TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony
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Composer or Director: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Orfeo
Magazine Review Date: 06/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 67
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: C895 151A
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Marche slave, 'Slavonic March' |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Andris Nelsons, Conductor City of Birmingham Orchestra Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer |
Manfred Symphony |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Andris Nelsons, Conductor City of Birmingham Orchestra Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer |
Author: Andrew Achenbach
Ultimately, I still think Pletnev and his astonishing Russian National Orchestra just have the edge in terms of home-grown empathy, unswerving concentration and (in the Scherzo especially) miraculous composure; their two fascinatingly different interpretations on DG and Pentatone really do complement each other beautifully. Nonetheless, Nelsons’s broodingly passionate and imaginatively conceived reading remains a must-hear by any standards. Give or take the odd (very isolated) bump and page-turn, not to mention the conductor’s sometimes audible intakes of breath, producer Tim Oldham has preserved the combustible charge of what was clearly quite an event. March slave comprises a giddily rousing curtain-raiser – and fingers crossed for the first three Tchaikovsky symphonies from these same artists!
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