Composer: Boris Tchaikovsky
Performer: Olga Filonova, Svetlana Nikolayeva, Olga Solovieva, Lev Serov, Alexey Khutoriansky, Kirill Ershov, Marina Archakova
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0046
Release: 2009
Size: 219 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
4 Poems by Joseph Brodsky
01. No. 1. Dialogue
02. No. 2. Lyrics
03. No. 3. Farewell and Forget
04. No. 4. Stanzas
From Kipling
05. No. 1. Far-Off Amazon
06. No. 2. Homer
String Trio
07. I. Allegro marcato
08. II. Andante
09. III. Allegretto
2 Poems by Mikhail Lermontov
10. No. 1. Autumn
11. No. 2. Pine Tree
2 Pieces for balalaika prima and piano
12. No. 1. Joke
13. No. 2. Landscape
Lyrics of Pushkin
14. No. 1. Echo
15. No. 2. A Gift Unneeded
16. No. 3. Talisman
17. No. 4. To the Poet
18. No. 5. Your Image
19. No. 6. If you were deceived by life
20. No. 7. Work
21. No. 8. I don’t value highly
Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky (1925–96) was one of the more important Russian composers of the second half of the twentieth century.
His works were held in high regard and performed by renowned artists including Kirill Kondrashin, Rudolf Barshai, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vassily Sinaisky, Mstislav Rostropovich, Galina Vishnevskaya, Igor Oistrakh and the Borodin Quartet.
Tchaikovsky’s style at its purest combines a paradoxical combination of simplicity and complete individuality. Many of his works are masterpieces; Galina Vishnevskaya described the ‘Four Poems by Josef Brodsky’, as ‘…this talented, wonderful opus…’.
The ‘Two Poems by Mikhail Lermontov’, written at the age of fifteen already have a confident melodic sweep with some unexpected harmonic turns in the largely diatonic piano accompaniment.
The String Trio, which shows the continued influence of his teacher, Shostakovich, was the work which signalled an end to Tchaikovsky’s early period and the beginning of his years of creative maturity. It is perhaps here that he first reveals his amazing gift as a painter musician, a poet musician.