Romeo and Juliet: Tchaikovsky on the Piano | BIS BIS2198

Romeo and Juliet: Tchaikovsky on the Piano

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BIS2198

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 3rd March 2023

Contents

Works

Glinka, Mikhail

Ruslan and Lyudmila, op.5
» Overture (arr. Yevgeny Sudbin)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), op.59
Morceaux (2), op.10
Morceaux (6), op.19
» no.4 Nocturne in C sharp minor
Pieces (18), op.72
» no.3 Tendres reproches
» no.14 Chant elegiaque
» no.16 Valse a cinq temps
Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture in F major, op.64 (arr. Yevgeny Sudbin)
The Nutcracker, op.71
» Waltz of the Flowers (arr. Yevgeny Sudbin)
The Seasons, op.37a
» no.6 June: Barcarolle
» no.11 November: Troika
The Sleeping Beauty, op.66
» Valse (Act 1) (arr. Rachmaninov, Sudbin)

Artists

Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
Bella Sudbin (piano)

Works

Glinka, Mikhail

Ruslan and Lyudmila, op.5
» Overture (arr. Yevgeny Sudbin)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), op.59
Morceaux (2), op.10
Morceaux (6), op.19
» no.4 Nocturne in C sharp minor
Pieces (18), op.72
» no.3 Tendres reproches
» no.14 Chant elegiaque
» no.16 Valse a cinq temps
Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture in F major, op.64 (arr. Yevgeny Sudbin)
The Nutcracker, op.71
» Waltz of the Flowers (arr. Yevgeny Sudbin)
The Seasons, op.37a
» no.6 June: Barcarolle
» no.11 November: Troika
The Sleeping Beauty, op.66
» Valse (Act 1) (arr. Rachmaninov, Sudbin)

Artists

Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
Bella Sudbin (piano)

About

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 take 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 serves to confirm.

Reviews

In the two waltz transcriptions (the Sleeping Beauty being adapted from the young Rachmaninov’s version), Sudbin is joined by his 12-year-old daughter, to whom the best tribute I can pay is that I could never tell who is taking the primo and who the secondo. As for the solo pieces, they bring out the more tender side of Sudbin’s understanding, as he shapes lines with sovereign freedom yet with no hint of narcissism.  David Fanning
Gramophone April 2023
Gramophone Editor's Choice

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