Romeo & Juliet: Tchaikovsky on the Piano

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hugely impressive in that you simply can't tell Sudbin's playing apart from that of his 12-year-old daughter Bella...I’d have been happy for a complete sequence of original Tchaikovsky pianism,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Mar 2023
Catalogue No: BIS2198
Label: BIS
Length: 73 minutes

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Glinka: Ruslan & Lyudmila Overture

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Arr. Y. Sudbin for Piano
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

Overture (Arr. Y. Sudbin for Piano)

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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers

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Arr. Y. Sudbin for Piano 4 Hands
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano), Bella Sudbin (piano)

III. Waltz of the Flowers (Arr. Y. Sudbin for Piano 4 Hands)

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

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Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37b (excerpts)

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Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

No. 11, November. On the Troika

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No. 6, June. Barcarolle

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Tchaikovsky: Morceaux (2), Op. 10

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Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

No. 1, Nocturne. Andante cantabile

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No. 2, Humoresque. Allegretto scherzando

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Excerpt, Tchaikovsky: Morceaux (6), Op. 19

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Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

No. 4, Nocturne. Andante sentimentale

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Tchaikovsky: Morceaux (18), Op. 72 (excerpts)

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Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

No. 3, Tendres reproches. Allegro non tanto ed agitato

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No. 16, Valse à cinq temps. Vivace

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No. 14, Chant élégiaque. Adagio

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Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Waltz

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Arr. S. Rachmaninoff & Y. Sudbin for Piano 4 Hands
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano), Bella Sudbin (piano)

V. Waltz (Arr. S. Rachmaninoff & Y. Sudbin for Piano 4 Hands)

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Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet - Fantasy Overture

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Arr. Y. Sudbin for Piano
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

Andante ma non tanto, quasi moderato

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Allegro giusto

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Bar 275

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Moderato assai

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"In his liner notes, Yevgeny Sudbin remembers falling in love with Tchaikovsky’s music when he was introduced to classical music. On this album, the pianist presents a collection of piano pieces and arrangements for piano, solo and four hands, of orchestral works by the great Russian composer, preceding it with a curtain raiser much-loved by Tchaikovsky himself: Mikhail Glinka's Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila. The piano pieces selected by Sudbin spans some twenty years of Tchaikovsky's career and takes in the ever-popular Barcarolle (June) and Troika (November) from The Seasons as well as three pieces from the composer's last work for piano, the 18 Pieces, Op. 72. To these are added two waltzes from The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty, here performed in four-hand piano arrangements with Sudbin's 12-year-old daughter Bella playing the ‘primo’ part. The pièce de resistance of this album, however, is Sudbin's arrangement of the famous overture-fantasy Romeo and Juliet in which the composer, according to Sudbin, ‘lays bare his soul and where some of his most incredible music can be found’. To the pianist, the rawness and vulnerability of human emotions’ displayed in Tchaikovsky's music is almost unparalleled, something which his own performance here serve to confirm."

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May 2023

hugely impressive in that you simply can't tell Sudbin's playing apart from that of his 12-year-old daughter Bella...I’d have been happy for a complete sequence of original Tchaikovsky pianism, but Sudbin is so engaging a personality that he carries it all off, as did Pletnev in his own more surprising Tchaikovsky ballet transcriptions.

April 2023

[In the Glinka], and in the Romeo and Juliet Overture, Sudbin’s capacity for quasi-orchestral texturing and digital aerobatics is perfectly showcased: scintillating, and then some.

May 2023

Yevgeny Sudbin returns in a response to Tchaikovsky both virtuosic and joyous… Here, lovingly presented, accompanied by the pianist’s delightfully informal and informed notes, is a richly varied communication… BIS’s sound is as vivid and immediate as the playing.

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