Tchaikovsky: Complete Works for Cello and Orchestra

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Release Date: 16th May 2011
Catalogue No: 94188
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 67 minutes

Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33

Work length18:40

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Alexander Rudin
Ensemble Instrumental Musica Viva
Nikolai Alekseev

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

Work length4:01

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Alexander Rudin
Ensemble Instrumental Musica Viva
Nikolai Alekseev

6 Morceaux, Op. 19: No. 4, Nocturne (Version for cello and strings)

Track length4:01

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Excerpt, Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11

Work length5:49

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Alexander Rudin
Ensemble Instrumental Musica Viva
Nikolai Alekseev

String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11: II. Andante cantabile (Version for cello and string orchestra)

Track length5:49

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Tchaikovsky: Valse sentimentale / Andante cantabile / Pezzo capriccioso Op. 62

Work length6:57

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Alexander Rudin
Ensemble Instrumental Musica Viva
Nikolai Alekseev

Excerpt, Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Suite, Op. 66a

Work length4:26

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Alexander Rudin
Ensemble Instrumental Musica Viva
Nikolai Alekseev

Andante cantabile

Track length4:26

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Tchaikovsky: Serenade for strings in C major, Op. 48

Work length27:09

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$9.10

Ensemble Instrumental Musica Viva
Alexander Rudin

I. Pezzo in forma di Sonatina

Track length7:50

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$2.60

II. Walzer

Track length3:42

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III. Elegie

Track length8:30

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IV. Finale

Track length7:07

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The cello, with its deep melancholic timbre, touched a sensitive chord with Tchaikovsky. He wrote some beautiful concertante works for this instrument, which are gathered here complete on one CD.

The most famous are the Rococo variations, taking a gallant theme as the basis for a fascinating set of variations in widely varying moods.

Beautiful performances, full of Russian Soul by Alexander Rudin (a pupil of Daniil Shafran).

Here’s another fine disc, unavailable for some time, now receiving a new lease of life, and with no significant competition. It’s true that the complete works for cello and orchestra amount to less than half this disc’s duration, comprising as they do a couple of miniatures (the Pezzo Capriccioso and Nocturne) and the evergreen Rococo Variations. But the first point of importance is that the fine Russian cellist Alexander Rudin plays the original version of the score, and not the much more widely available piece of well-meaning butchery by a cellist of Tchaikovsky’s own time,Wilhelm Fitzenhagen. Fitzenhagen fiddled around with the order of the variations and left one out altogether, as well as somewhat simplifying the composer’s original and strenuous but effective demands upon the soloist. A return to the original reveals what we have been missing in the way of a rather more substantial and coherent work, and there are but one or two rival versions on the market.

In addition, Rudin complements the Variations with the gorgeous interlude from Swan Lake that features a solo cello, as well as an arrangement of the famous Andante cantabile from the First String Quartet. He then conducts this Muscovy orchestra himself in the Serenade for Strings. Alexander Rudin was born in 1960 and studied with the cello legend Daniil Shafran. His pedigree in this music is impeccable.

Tchaikovsky: Complete Works for Cello and Orchestra

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