Tchaikovsky - Secular Choruses
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 94210
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 13th June 2011
Contents
Works
A golden cloud slumberedBlessed is he who smiles
Child’s Song
Dawn
Hymn to Cyril and Methodius
Much too soon in the season
Neapolitanisches Tanzlied
Old French Air
Priroda i lyubov'
Romances (6), op.27
Songs for Children (16), op.54
Artists
Moscow Academy of Choral SingingConductor
Victor PopovWorks
A golden cloud slumberedBlessed is he who smiles
Child’s Song
Dawn
Hymn to Cyril and Methodius
Much too soon in the season
Neapolitanisches Tanzlied
Old French Air
Priroda i lyubov'
Romances (6), op.27
Songs for Children (16), op.54
Artists
Moscow Academy of Choral SingingConductor
Victor PopovAbout
Some, including Autumn, Child’s Song and A Legend (from 16 Children’s Songs Op.54), and the pastoral Dawn were written for solo voice or duet, and Night, a vocal quartet with piano, but Tchaikovsky soon realised that they sounded better as choruses. Autumn and Child’s Song both have a tenor solo, and contrast well with each other: a misty autumnal poem of lethargic melancholy and a comical, playful little ditty.
Another highlight is the melancholy Old French Air, with its timeless charm, which also appears as a minstrel’s song in Tchaikovsky’s opera The Maid of Orleans. Other works of note include the radiant Nature and Love, a sentimental trio for soprano, mezzo and contralto, three-part female chorus and piano, and the meditative nocturne Before Sleep, composed in his student years.
Greeting to Anton Rubinstein is an extraordinary seven part piece written for the 50th anniversary of Rubinstein’s career.
The Nightingale is without a doubt Tchaikovsky’s finest achievement in choral music, a magnificent reconstruction of a folk song. The vocal quartet Night is a tribute to Mozart, who Tchaikovsky idolised, and is an arrangement of the middle section of Mozart’s Fantasy in C minor for piano. The finale, Neapolitan Air, is a little choral divertissement whose tune was derived from Swan Lake.
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