Russian composer Boris Tchaikovsky had nothing to do with neither sugar plum fairies, nor swans in love with people, nor sleeping beauties -- he wasn't even related to the composer who did. This Tchaikovsky was a serious, studious post-World War II Soviet composer, primarily of symphonic music but also prolific in other fields such as piano music. In his youth, Tchaikovsky was an attentive student of composers Nikolay Myaskovsky and Vissarion Shebalin at the Moscow Conservatory, and his music reflects the influence of ...
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Russian composer Boris Tchaikovsky had nothing to do with neither sugar plum fairies, nor swans in love with people, nor sleeping beauties -- he wasn't even related to the composer who did. This Tchaikovsky was a serious, studious post-World War II Soviet composer, primarily of symphonic music but also prolific in other fields such as piano music. In his youth, Tchaikovsky was an attentive student of composers Nikolay Myaskovsky and Vissarion Shebalin at the Moscow Conservatory, and his music reflects the influence of Myaskovsky in that it demonstrates absolute mastery of orchestration. However, unlike Myaskovsky, it is neither long-winded nor rambling -- Tchaikovsky's music is taut, concise, and opts for calculated understatement over bombast and messy development sections. In the last 15 years left to him, Tchaikovsky managed to open up a new dimension in his work; as his colleague Andrei Golivin described it, "[Tchaikovsky's] style has crystallized into being, into super solid matter." This disc in...
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