Great Composers in Words & Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
℗ 2023
30 Tracks, 1:15:37
- 00:08Introduction
- 01:18The swans swim on the lake (Excerpt)
- 06:44Can there be music more instantly recognisable, more wildly popular, more beautifully scored?
- 00:53Marche slave op. 31 (Excerpt)
- 04:20We heard an extract from Tchaikovsky's 1876 orchestral piece Marche slave
- 01:12Aria "Vedrai, carino" (Excerpt)
- 04:56Tchaikovsky's arrival at the preparatory school in St Petersburg
- 01:54"Moy geniy, moy angel, moy drug"
- 06:44Tchaikovsky graduated from the School of Jurisprudence on 25 May 1859
- 02:01Groza op. 76 (Excerpt)
- 05:41On graduation at the end of 1865, Tchaikovsky was offered the role of music theory teacher at the soon-to-open Moscow Conservatory
- 01:34I. Andante sostenuto – Allegro vivo (Excerpt)
- 04:28Around this time, the early 1870s, Tchaikovsky enjoyed some success as an aspiring composer
- 01:22"Pochudilis' mne budito golosa i shum shagov" (Excerpt)
- 02:52Towards the end of 1874, the same year in which The Oprichnik premiered
- 02:38I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso – Allegro con spirito (Excerpt)
- 05:02The mid-1870s witnessed the further development of Tchaikovsky's career
- 01:08I. Andante sostenuto – Moderato con anima (Excerpt)
- 01:10In the years that followed his ill-fated marriage, Tchaikovsky became reclusive
- 01:301812 Festival Overture op. 49 (Excerpt)
- 02:55In the mid-1880s, Tchaikovsky decided to return to the Moscow region and settle down
- 01:23III. Preghiera. Andante non tanto (Excerpt)
- 01:38In the final years of Tchaikovsky's life, his compositional pace seemed to increase
- 01:10Valse (Excerpt)
- 00:42A second example from the ballet illustrates Tchaikovsky's characteristically atmospheric musical style
- 01:25Panorama (Excerpt)
- 01:20Tchaikovsky's third and final ballet, The Nutcracker, was premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre on 18 December 1892
- 01:18Coda
- 04:18Although the Tsar, present at the final dress rehearsal…
- 01:53IV. Finale. Adagio lamentoso (Excerpt)