Tchaikovsky

1 Last week with the New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel, the orchestra’s previous music director, came across as curiously unengaged in works by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich.

2 He noted the Met was currently rehearsing a production of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” that features several Russian artists.

3 There was also a chance to catch up with the Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili, demonstrating why her recent recording of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto has been turning heads.

4 Pappano kept a tight grip on the opening movement of the Tchaikovsky, bringing out the piece's ambiguous sense of menace by not pressing forward too soon.

5 Phil debut two years ago, provided Abduraimov hefty support in the Tchaikovsky and then made eight sections, conducted from memory, from Prokofiev's ballet his own.

6 Stephen Hough's dazzling performance of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, concluding Thursday's Seattle Symphony concert, came as a reward for sitting through Prokofiev's baleful and somewhat turgid Third Symphony before intermission.

7 A second program on Monday, with works by Schubert, Barber and Tchaikovsky, promises more variety.

8 But the City Ballet orchestra gets to perform a highly varied repertoire: This year it will play the music of Bach, Vivaldi, Gluck, Mendelssohn, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Hindemith, Bernstein and John Adams, among others.

9 Large chunks of Tchaikovsky’s score were omitted, including the music for the ascent of the Christmas tree, the battle of mice and toy soldiers, the Spanish and Chinese dances, and Mother Ginger.

10 The orchestra played as though it too were young again, as even the belovedly disconsolate Tchaikovsky once was.

11 But the opera has been neglected, only recently beginning to be recognized as one of Tchaikovsky's musically great works.

12 But when the women of the New York Philharmonic walked on stage at David Geffen Hall recently to play Mozart and Tchaikovsky, they all wore floor-length black skirts or gowns.

13 If that’s the case, it’s downright inexplicable that it gets programmed so much; I may have heard it more than any other Tchaikovsky symphony.

14 I think Tchaikovsky meant those shrieks to indicate children’s ecstatic glee at what they see, but I’ve never known them so well caught by stage action.

15 But this was a brave, impetuous, enthusiastic, splendidly colorful rendition — classicism variously colored by Romanticism and flamboyant bravura, just like Tchaikovsky’s music.

16 On paper, there was a nice balance to this all-Russian program: Having kicked off with Tchaikovsky and peaked with Rachmaninoff, it concluded with Stravinsky’s ballet “The Fairy’s Kiss,” a piece steeped in Tchaikovsky and Tchaikovsky-esqueness.

17 The lush Russian romanticism of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 proved surprisingly compatible with Gershwin's American flavors.

18 If you attend to Tchaikovsky, the score implies that this second act should close as it started: perhaps it’s journeying music, perhaps it’s a distant view of the Sweets landscape.

19 All of this, and the inspiration of conducting the 250 children in Tchaikovsky, Dudamel reiterates, is what gives him and the country hope.

20 I remembered I had wanted to listen to a Tchaikovsky symphony on Sunday night, the night of the ball game which I had been so certain we would win.

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