Tchaikovsky: The Seasons

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Release Date: 5th Oct 2018
Catalogue No: PCL10157
Label: Piano Classics
Length: 73 minutes

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Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37

Work length46:22

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Yuan Sheng (piano)
Recorded: 22-23 October 2017
Recording Venue: Record Corporation, 17 Yude Hutong, Beijing, China

The Seasons, Op. 37a, TH 135: I. January: By the Fireside

Track length5:34

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The Seasons, Op. 37a, TH 135: II. February: Carnival

Track length3:06

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The Seasons, Op. 37a, TH 135: III. March: Song of the Lark

Track length2:41

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The Seasons, Op. 37a, TH 135: IV. April: Snowdrop

Track length2:59

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The Seasons, Op. 37a, TH 135: V. May: May Nights

Track length4:36

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The Seasons, Op. 37a, TH 135: VI. June: Barcarolle

Track length5:23

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The Seasons, Op. 37a, TH 135: VII. July: Song of the Reaper

Track length1:55

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The Seasons, Op. 37a, TH 135: VIII. August: The Harvest

Track length3:58

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The Seasons, Op. 37a, TH 135: IX. September: The Hunt

Track length3:18

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The Seasons, Op. 37a, TH 135: X. October: Autumn Song

Track length4:56

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The Seasons, Op. 37a, TH 135: XI. November: Troika

Track length3:20

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The Seasons, Op. 37a, TH 135: XII. December: Christmas

Track length4:36

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Tchaikovsky: Morceaux (2), Op. 10

Work length7:35

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Yuan Sheng (piano)
Recorded: 22-23 October 2017
Recording Venue: Recording Studio of China, China

2 Pieces, Op. 10, TH 132: No. 1. Nocturne in F Major

Track length4:37

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2 Pieces, Op. 10, TH 132: No. 2. Humoresque in E Minor

Track length2:58

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Tchaikovsky: Romance in F minor, Op. 5

Work length6:18

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Yuan Sheng (piano)

Tchaikovsky: Aveu Passioné in E minor

Work length3:25

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Yuan Sheng (piano)

Tchaikovsky: Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), Op. 59

Work length10:09

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Yuan Sheng (piano)

Russian rustic scene, Op. 59

Track length10:09

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Yuan Sheng has a deep understanding and command of harpsichord and early pianos that has resulted in many well-received historically informed performances and recordings. In reviewing his all-Beethoven recital on an 1805 Kathönig piano, the Boston Intelligencer remarked that ‘Sheng had absorbed this music so thoroughly that a listener might easily have imagined the composer at the keyboard.’

Sheng made his debut on Piano Classics with a 3-CD album of Chopin (the complete Nocturnes, Preludes, Ballades and Impromptus, PCL0049) played on an 1845 Pleyel. For this new recording of Tchaikovsky’s evergreen musical diary, he has returned to the reliable refinements of a modern Steinway, yet the nuances of his performance reflect concerns to grasp and convey the styles of phrasing and articulation that would have been second nature to Tchaikovsky.

As a cycle of salon pieces, The Seasons has never ceased to afford pleasure both to listeners and to amateur pianists since it was first published in 1885, though Tchaikovsky had compiled its contents over several years. It is here complemented by works dating from different periods of Tchaikovsky’s career, similarly undemanding in style: the very early Romance (1868) and two Morceaux (1871-2) and the much later Dumka (1886), composed for his Parisian publisher Félix Mackar as a ‘rhapsody’.

According to International Piano, Yuan Sheng is China’s ‘premier interpreter of Bach’. Having studied in the US, including an intensive period with the legendary Bach interpreter Rosalyn Tureck, he has maintained an international performing career alongside his post as professor of piano at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music. Three volumes of Bach on Piano Classics (the Goldberg Variations, PCL0042, Partitas, PCL10126, and a mixed album including the Italian Concerto and French Overture, PCL0076) will eventually take their place within a complete recorded cycle of the composer’s keyboard works.

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