Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works: The Tempest, Francesca da Rimini, The Voyevoda, Overture and Polonaise From ‘Cherevichki’

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Alpesh Chauhan evidently has a tremendous flair for Tchaikovsky. Supported by stunningly responsive playing from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, his interpretations brilliantly project the... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Jun 2023
Catalogue No: CHSA5300
Label: Chandos
Length: 78 minutes

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Tchaikovsky: The Voyevoda

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Tchaikovsky: The Tempest, Op. 18

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I. Andante con moto

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II. Allegro moderato

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III. Allegro vivace

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IV. Andante con moto

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V. Allegro animato

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VI. Andante non tanto

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Tchaikovsky: Cherevichki: Introduction

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Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from the Opera Cherevichki

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Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32

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I. Andante lugubre

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II. Allegro vivo

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III. Andante cantabile non troppo

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IV. Allegro vivo

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Recording of the Week, Tchaikovsky from Alpesh Chauhan and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

2nd June 2023

Featuring Francesca da Rimini, The Voyevoda and The Tempest, the British conductor's debut recording is the stuff dreams are made on, combining passion and precision to thrilling dramatic effect.

Born in Birmingham, Alpesh Chauhan studied cello under Eduardo Vassallo at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester before continuing at the RNCM to pursue the prestigious Master’s Conducting Course. Alpesh has studied with Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, participated in masterclasses with Juanjo Mena, Vasily Petrenko and Jac van Steen, and was mentored by Andris Nelsons and Edward Gardner in his post as Assistant Conductor of the CBSO 2014-16. Newly appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Dusseldorfer Symphoniker from the 21/22 season, he is also Associate Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of Birmingham Opera Company. He frequently appears as guest conductor with acclaimed international orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National d’Île de France, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI, Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. For this his debut recording for Chandos, he has chosen a collection of Tchaikovsky’s symphonic fantasias, alongside the Overture and Polonaise from the comic opera ‘Cherevichki’. The Tempest, from 1873 is based on the Shakespeare play, and shows that Tchaikovsky’s unique voice and style were already fully developed. Francesca da Rimini (based on the tale in Dante’s Inferno) was written only a few years later, but after Tchaikovsky had attended the premier of Wagner’s Ring cycle in Bayreuth – an influence discernible particularly in the brass chords. Cherevichki (the Slippers) is a revision of his earlier opera Vakula the Smith, based on Gogol’s Christmas Eve. Tchaikovsky’s Symphonic Ballad The Voyevoda is based on Adam Mickiewicz’s poem ‘The Ambush’, and is the first orchestral work to include the (newly invented) Celeste.

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August 2023

Alpesh Chauhan evidently has a tremendous flair for Tchaikovsky. Supported by stunningly responsive playing from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, his interpretations brilliantly project the music’s theatrical excitement as well as its subtle and sophisticated orchestration.

August 2023

Chauhan proves in this disc that he loves Tchaikovsky and is not afraid to show it, at a time when so many conductors appear embarrassed by the emotional intensity and try to tame the music, with results that are sometimes desiccated.

2nd June 2023

Had Tchaikovsky heard The Voyevoda in a performance as persuasive as Chauhan’s, I feel he might have ceased to browbeat himself for ‘dirtying paper’..The textures here could easily disintegrate into melodramatic mush in lesser hands (and with lesser engineers on the case), but by keeping the string sound lean and incisive until it’s finally allowed to bloom in the central love-scene Chauhan wrings maximum tension from the score...In short, Chauhan’s Tchaikovsky is indeed the stuff dreams are made on, and the next instalment can’t come soon enough.

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