Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works Vol. 2

Featuring

Alpesh Chauhan
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Recording & Production

This album was recorded using 24-bit / 96 kHz technology, which offers a dynamic range up to 48 dB greater and 256 times the resolution of standard 16-bit recordings.

Compositional Technique

In Capriccio italien, Tchaikovsky used delightful tunes he assembled from anthologies and heard on the streets of Italy, creating a 'brilliant and effective' scoring.

Composition History

Despite its late opus number, Fatum is an early work from 1868, following The Storm, and is one of several programmatic orchestral dramas by Tchaikovsky with a strong literary basis.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Tchaikovsky's symphonic poem Fatum shares a sense of yearning for happiness in love, a fulfillment he later told his patron Nadezhda von Meck he had never known.

Composer Biography

Tchaikovsky's life as a public figure followed a glorious trajectory, from his Characteristic Dances in 1865 to his final triumphs in imperial theatres with works like The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker.

Composition History

Tchaikovsky composed Capriccio italien in Rome during the winter of 1879–80, while also working on a revision of his Second Symphony.

Performer Biography

Alpesh Chauhan, the conductor, was born in Birmingham and studied cello before pursuing a Master's Conducting Course, mentored by conductors like Andris Nelsons.