Composer: Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Performer: Mélodie Zhao
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Conductor: Michail Jurowski
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Claves
Catalogue: CD1603
Release: 2015
Size: 669 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23
01. I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso – Allegro con spirito
02. II. Andantino semplice
03. III. Allegro con fuoco
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 44 (Original Version)
04. I. Allegro brillante e molto vivace
05. II. Andante non troppo
06. III. Allegro con fuoco
It is almost unnecessary to mention Tchaikovsky’s famous First Piano Concerto, a mind-blowing sample of his artistic personality. When Nikolaï Rubinstein, Piotr Ilitch’s venerated teacher, first judged the work, he deemed that it “made him feel nauseous” and that barely “two or three pages could be kept! As for the rest, said he, it should be scrapped or rewritten from beginning to end”. What a loss it would have been for posterity, had the pupil not replied: “I shall not change a single note.”…