Karajan Conducts Tchaikovsky 8CDs - CD7

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский) 7 May 1840 [O.S. 25 April] – 6 November 1893 [O.S. 25 October]) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, seven symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.

Born into a middle-class family, Tchaikovsky's education prepared him for a career as a civil servant, despite the musical precocity he had demonstrated. Against the wishes of his family he chose to pursue a musical career, and in 1862 entered the St Petersburg Conservatory, graduating in 1865. This formal, Western-oriented training set him apart, musically, from the contemporary nationalistic movement embodied by the group of young Russian composers known as "The Five", with whom Tchaikovsky sustained a mixed professional relationship throughout his career.

As his style developed, Tchaikovsky wrote music across a range of genres, including symphony, opera, ballet, instrumental, chamber and song. Although he enjoyed many popular successes, he was never emotionally secure, and his life was punctuated by personal crises and periods of depression. Contributory factors were his suppressed homosexuality and fear of exposure, his disastrous marriage, and the sudden collapse of the one enduring relationship of his adult life, his 13-year association with the wealthy widow Nadezhda von Meck. Amid private turmoil Tchaikovsky's public reputation grew; he was honored by the Tsar, awarded a lifetime pension and lauded in the concert halls of the world. His sudden death at the age of 53 is generally ascribed to cholera, but some attribute it to suicide.

Although enduringly popular with concert audiences across the world, Tchaikovsky has at times been judged harshly by critics, musicians and composers. However, his reputation as a significant composer is now generally regarded as secure. In the early and mid-20th century, Western critics dismissed his music as vulgar and lacking in elevated thought, but this disdain has largely dissipated.

CD7:

The Sleeping Beauty - Suite, Op.66a

1 - Introduction - The Lilac Fairy [5:42]
2 - Pas d'action. Rose Adagio [6:56]
3 - Pas de caractère: Puss in Boots [1:54]
4 - Panorama (andantino) [3:19]
5 - Valse [4:11]

Swan Lake - Suite, Op.20

6 - 1. Scene - Swan Theme [2:43]
7 - 2. Valse in A [7:00]
8 - 3. Danse des petits cygnes [1:42]

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

9 - 4. Scene [6:46]

Michel Schwalbé (Violin), Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

10 - 5. Danse Hongroise (Czardas) [3:47]
11 - 6. Scène finale. [4:51]

Nutcracker - Suite, Op.71a

12 - 1. Miniature Overture [3:19]
13 - 2. Danses caractéristiques a. Marche (Tempo di marcia viva) [2:17]
14 - 2b. Danse de la fée-Dragée (Andante non troppo) [1:53]
15 - 2c. Danse russe Trépak (Tempo di Trépak, molto vivace) [1:04]
16 - 2d. Danse arabe (Allegretto) [3:22]
17 - 2e. Danse chinoise (Allegro moderato) [1:16]
18 - 2f. Danse des mirlitons (Moderato assai) [2:30]
19 - 3. Valse des fleurs (Tempo di Valse) [7:01]

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Total Playing Time: [1:11:33]

Recording Information:

Recording date: January 1971 (The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake), October 1966 (Nutcracker)
Live / Studio: Studio
Recording Location: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, Germany
Format: ADD Stereo 44 kHz 16 Bit

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