Souvenir Russe
No in-your-face Tchaikovsky from this young player but she finds the poetry
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Composer or Director: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Sony Classical
Magazine Review Date: 8/2008
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
Catalogue Number: 88697 21423-2
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Concerto for Violin and Orchestra |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Andris Nelsons, Conductor Baiba Skride, Violin City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer |
Souvenir d'un lieu cher |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Andris Nelsons, Conductor Baiba Skride, Violin City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer |
Swan Lake |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Andris Nelsons, Conductor Baiba Skride, Violin City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer |
Author: Edward Seckerson
Andris Nelsons’s shaping of the CBSO – he’s the new musical director – is fashioned very much in Skride’s image and here I must admit that there are times when a touch more muscle might have lent the proceedings more of a lift: I miss the “kick” and trumpet-toned brilliance of the grand polonaise variant in the first movement’s tuttis. The wintry colours of the slow movement are lovely, though, with Skride’s many shades of pale elegantly dovetailed into flute and clarinet adornments.
All these qualities are replicated throughout the disc, the other amuses-bouches attended with equally good grace. Glazunov does a passable imitation of Tchaikovsky in his orchestration of Souvenir d’un lieu cher.
So what’s missing? On this evidence I would say panache. Her Tchaikovsky Concerto is not going to wow those accustomed to bigger bowing and more primary colours. The wilder side of her temperament (if there is one) is kept well in check.
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