Tchaikovsky Jarvi

Paavo Jarvi, Cincinnati SO - P.I. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 'Pathetique' Op.74; Romeo and Juliet Overture (2007)

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 'Pathetique' Op.74; Romeo and Juliet Overture (2007)
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paavo Järvi

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 269 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 166 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Telarc | # CD-80681 | Time: 01:07:17

Paavo Järvi’s remarkably fresh-sounding Tchaikovsky Pathétique emphasizes the music’s lyricism and singing line, with flowing tempos and unforced, natural phrasing throughout. Accordingly the strings predominate in this performance, and the Cincinnati players make beautiful sounds, especially in the outer movements. Järvi treats the first movement’s “big tune” as a love song that grows more impassioned with each appearance. On the other hand he leads a quite angry development section, with biting brass ratcheting up the tension. The second movement goes at a lively, dancing pace, while Järvi’s quick-stepping third-movement march generates real excitement in its second-half, with brilliant playing by the Cincinnati brass.
Geoffrey Tozer, LPO, Neeme Jarvi - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.3; Symphony No.7 (1993)

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.3; Symphony No.7 (1993)
Geoffrey Tozer, piano; The London Philharmonic; Neeme Järvi, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 255 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 137 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9130 | Time: 00:57:22

The Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 3 is rarely heard, though it is a finely crafted work worth greater attention. It has suffered alongside the magnificent and superior Second and the ever-popular First. Moreover, it is not a bona fide concerto at all, the composer having completed only the first movement before his sudden death in 1893. Contrary to the suggestion of a few, it is highly unlikely he intended to produce a one-movement concerto. Tchaikovsky wrote two other piano pieces the same year bearing the titles "Andante" and "Finale," respectively. Following his death, Taneyev orchestrated these and attached them to the Concerto, though Tchaikovsky had left no indication they were to be a part of it. But the pair did share something in common with the completed first movement: a theme source – the incomplete Symphony No. 7. In any event, the opening movement of this Concerto is the most compelling, featuring an exuberant main theme whose first two notes are the central melodic element. An attractive slow melody is soon presented, followed by a theme of great vivacity and rhythmic drive.
James Ehnes, Robert deMaine, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (2012)

James Ehnes, Robert deMaine, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:25:10 | 699 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos Records | Catalog: CHSA 5113(2)

This two-disc set marks the beginning of a new project devoted to Tchaikovsky's ballet scores. We start the survey with the complete score of The Sleeping Beauty, recorded on SACD. Swan Lake and The Nutcracker will follow in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Tchaikovsky was approached by the Director of the Imperial Theatres in St Petersburg, Ivan Vsevolozhsky, in 1888 about a possible ballet adaptation of Charles Perrault's La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty).
James Ehnes, Neeme Järvi, Bergen Philharmonic - Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (2013)

James Ehnes, Neeme Järvi, Bergen Philharmonic - Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 602 Mb | Total time: 81:00+74:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos ‎| CHSA 5124(2) | Recorded: 2012

This is the second instalment in our series devoted to Tchaikovsky’s three great ballets. The first recording, of The Sleeping Beauty, was praised upon its release, described by a reviewer in American Record Guide as ‘one of the finest I’ve heard’. Here Neeme Järvi and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra present the complete version of Swan Lake, with the pre-eminent James Ehnes lending his magic to the violin solos. This was Tchaikovsky’s first full-length ballet, but its premiere in 1877, staged at Moscow’s Bolshoy Theatre, was by no means a resounding success. According to most accounts, the choreography was inept, the shabby sets and costumes were borrowed from other productions, and the orchestral playing was poor. Most ballet companies today base their productions on the 1895 revival by the distinguished choreographer Marius Petipa.
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich & Paavo Järvi - Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich & Paavo Järvi - Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 76:08 minutes | 1,3 GB
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich since October 2019, Paavo Järvi continues his complete cycle of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, following a first volume devoted to Symphony no.5 and the symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini.
Paavo Järvi, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; Francesca da Rimini (2020)

Paavo Järvi, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; Francesca da Rimini (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 312 Mb | Total time: 74:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | ALPHA 659 | Recorded: 2019

Paavo Järvi, Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich since October 2019, launches a complete recording of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, the first in both his rich discography and that of the Swiss orchestra.
Jarvi writes: ‘When I think of the Fifth Symphony, I think of vulnerability and hope. It looks directly into our soul. It is perhaps the finest of his symphonies. The famous horn solo moves me and enriches me every time I hear it . . . Unlike the Sixth, the Fifth still holds out hope for life.’
Sharon Bezaly, Residentie Orkest Den Haag, Neeme Jarvi - Great Works for Flute and Orchestra (2013)

Great Works for Flute and Orchestra (2013)
Nielsen, Griffes, Reinecke, Chaminade, Tchaikovsky, Poulenc, Rimsky-Korsakov
Sharon Bezaly, flute; Residentie Orkest Den Haag, conducted by Neeme Järvi

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 271 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 162 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-1679 | Time: 01:09:25

The recordings on Sweden's BIS label by Israeli-born flutist Sharon Bezaly have exposed a great deal of neglected and often highly virtuosic repertory, much of its brought within reach by Bezaly's unusual circular breathing technique. She's a remarkable flutist, but it's her repertory selection that really sets her apart from the crowd. She actually throws in some chestnuts, like Cécile Chaminade's Concertino for flute and orchestra, Op. 107, this time around, but the highlight is a really nifty and unknown little work: the Flute Concert in D major, Op. 283, of Carl Reinecke, composed in 1908. Its three movements reduce Wagnerian language to a compact concerto in all kinds of ingenious ways. Sample the first movement, where the flute provides a charming pastoral element against a varying backdrop. The other works are each characteristic of their composer, even including the very early Largo and Allegro for flute and strings of Tchaikovsky.
Lydia Mordkovitch, RSNO, Neeme Jarvi - Taneyev: Suite de Concert; Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasy on Russian Themes (2008)

Sergei Taneyev: Suite de Concert; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasy on Russian Themes (2008)
Lydia Mordkovitch, violin; Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Neeme Järvi

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 268 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 151 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10491 | Time: 01:04:52

Lydia Mordkovitch and the then Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi were a celebrated team in the 1980s, recording many notable Russian works, including the concertos by Khachaturian, Prokofiev and Shostakovich for Chandos, and winning a Gramophone Award. This ‘team’ has recently re-assembled to record little-known concertante works by Taneyev and Rimsky Korsakov. The unusual coupling of works by Taneyev and Rimsky-Korsakov, two great composer friends, neatly symbolises the era of the last decades of nineteenth-century Russia, with its great conservatories in Moscow and St Petersburg exerting enormous influence on the music of the country at the time.
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich & Paavo Järvi - Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 (2021)

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich & Paavo Järvi - Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 309 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 175 Mb | 01:16:08
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich since October 2019, Paavo Järvi continues his complete cycle of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, following a first volume devoted to Symphony no.5 and the symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini . This second volume features Symphonies nos. 2 and 4. The Fourth, composed in 1878 and nicknamed the ‘Fate’ Symphony because of its sombre colouring, which may recall the neuroses attributed to Tchaikovsky, is one of his most frequently performed. The Second Symphony, composed in 1872 and much less frequently performed in concert, is known as the ‘Little Russian’ because Tchaikovsky drew on Ukrainian folk tunes. The very first movement begins with a solo horn version of the folksong ‘Down by Mother Volga’…
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich & Paavo Järvi - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Francesca da Rimini (2020) [Of Digital Download 24/96]

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich & Paavo Järvi - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Francesca da Rimini (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 73:58 minutes | 1,3 GB
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

Paavo Järvi, Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich since October 2019, here launches a complete recording of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, the first in both his rich discography and that of the Swiss orchestra: ‘When I think of the Fifth Symphony, I think of vulnerability and hope. It looks directly into our soul. It is perhaps the finest of his symphonies. The famous horn solo moves me and enriches me every time I hear it… Unlike the Sixth, the Fifth still holds out hope for life.’ The symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini op.32 completes this programme. This dark and violent ‘symphonic fantasy after Dante’, a drama of jealousy, was premiered in 1877, at the same time as Swan Lake.