Orchestral, Symphonic Poems, Tchaikovsky (composer)
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The Amsterdam Piano Trio's Tchaikovsky is an absolute triumph in terms of technical brilliance, structural lucidity and textural balance. —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2026, Recording of the Month
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This is top-quality sound and playing - at bargain price, too. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd November 2008
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Orchestral
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, April 2021, Recommended Recording - Symphony No. 5
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Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works
RecommendedThe Tempest, Francesca da Rimini, The Voyevoda, Overture and Polonaise From ‘Cherevichki’
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alpesh Chauhan
Alpesh Chauhan evidently has a tremendous flair for Tchaikovsky. Supported by stunningly responsive playing from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, his interpretations brilliantly project... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd June 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, Orchestral Choice
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The organ has a really gutsy, symphonic core... Jan Kraybill... plays with considerable verve and a feeling both for colour and for the grand gesture. —
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Mussorgsky-Stokowski: Pictures at an Exhibition
RecommendedBournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier
Serebrier's own imposing, heavyweight style yields different results to the volatile Knussen… but it's always absorbing. Something of the Stokowski sound is filtered through the refined texturing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005, Disc of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 & Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Mariss Jansons’s Oslo Philharmonic recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition emerged as the lead recommendation some years back, but I’m certain that LSO/Noseda would be the one now —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, Orchestral Choice
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Special offer. Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev
Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes with the LSO is a good find; Svetlanov and the Philharmonia bring romantic warmth to Debussy's Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, La Mer surges with the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Archive Issue of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Archive Issue of the Month
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There's been critical acclaim for the previous TCHAIKOVSKY two volumes in this series, and Chauhan the latest one is well up there, with the opening string phrases of the Suite No. 2 lushly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Editor's Choice
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New. Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, TH 57 & Works for Cello & Orchestra
Gabriel Schwabe (cello), Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Christopher Ward
[Schwabe] certainly has the technical chops to make one gasp at his lightning delivery of the delirious demisemiquaver passages... All these are very well done and repertoire junkies will want... —
