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Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies Reviews
Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies Reviews
| 56 of 58 people found the following review helpful  Still one of the finest complete cycles....., By Andrew Simco (Morris, IL, USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies (Audio CD) In 1984, the Oslo Philharmonic recorded (on their own time and without fee) the Tchaikovsky 5th Symphony. The gurus of the music world chortled, saying "Who wants another recording of that old war horse?" For a while it seemed that they were right, as record label after record label refused to release it. However, just as hope was diminishing, Brian Couzens, the founder and chief recording producer of Chandos Records was so convinced of its merits that he not only offered to release it, but put Mariss Jansons and the OPO under contract to record the whole cycle. The rest as they say, is history. This symphony cycle is rightly regarded as one of the best ever recorded, both in terms of performance and sound. Each of the symphonies has something to offer the listener. There is not one bad recording in the set. All show Mariss Jansons's tremendous ability to choose correct tempi and to allow just the right amount of excitment without letting the performance get out... Read more 51 of 55 people found the following review helpful Tchaikovsky for people who (think they) hate Tchaikovsky, By This review is from: Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies (Audio CD) A musician friend of mine once said that eventually everyone "gets" Tchaikovsky. I didn't know what she meant by that: "gets" in the sense that eventually everyone "gets" a cold, or "gets" in the sense of "understands"? On the surface the question seems laughable: how can anyone not understand Tchaikovsky? He was the man who wrote emotionally overblown music with the gorgeous melodies we berate ourselves for liking. But, as these performances show, he was so much more...and a good deal less: a fine symphonist (maybe not of the very front rank, but fine nonetheless) who could write emotionally honest, intellectually stimulating works whose seeming histrionics may be more the doing of the music's interpreters than of the music itself. What sets these performances apart from countless others are a sense of emotional "cleanliness" with no sacrifice of genuine, barn-storming excitement.A few notes on the numbered symphonies (I... Read more 20 of 22 people found the following review helpful Tchaikovsky As He Would Have Liked It!, By This review is from: Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies (Audio CD) This terrific box set of Tchaikovsky's complete symphonies (1-6) put conductor Mariss Jansons on the map. They are brilliant interpretations that are completely different from the older renditions by Karajan, Bernstein, Dutoit, and other conductors. This is the newest version on digital sound technology. Mariss Jansons is still an active conductor in Europe, and I dare say is a modern day Herbert Von Karajan. His eminence as a conductor has been proven time and again through his work with the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic and various other European orchestras. He is a conThe problem with the music of Peter Tchaikovsky is not in the music itself but in the interpretations of it by various conductors over the years. It is by neglecting the true intent of Tchaikovsky's original scores, that most people come to associate Tchaikovsky's music as overly sentimental, sickly, sweetly romantic (Romeo and Juliet Overture for example and his... Read more |
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