Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades - Voyevoda Suites
11/7/2013, 13 Tracks, 1:06:15
Featuring
Peter Breiner
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Performer Biography
Peter Breiner, the arranger of these orchestral suites, is one of the world's most recorded musicians, with over 180 CDs released and 1.5 million sold by 2008.
Composition History
Tchaikovsky's first opera, Voyevoda, was based on Ostrovsky's comedy Son na Volge (A Volga Dream) and written in 1867-68.
Compositional Technique
Tchaikovsky reused elements from his opera Voyevoda in his ballet Swan Lake and in the opera Oprichnik.
Composition History
Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades, completed in 1890, was first staged in the same year at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg.
Critical Reception
Tchaikovsky's opera Voyevoda was considered a failure, given only five performances before being withdrawn, and Tchaikovsky himself destroyed it.
Performer Biography
Peter Breiner's arrangements of national anthems were used during the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 and for the Rugby World Cup 2011.
Performer Biography
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, which performs on this album, is one of the world's oldest national symphony orchestras, in existence since 1946.
