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Format : 1 CD Total Time : 01:15:05
Recording : 18-20/01/2021 Location : Pékin Country : Chine Sound : Studio / Stereo
Label : Piano Classics Catalog No. : PCL10245 EAN : 5029365102452 Price Code : DM019A
Publishing Year : 2022 Release Date : 11/05/2022
Genre : Classical
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Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovski (1840-1893)Album pour enfants, op. 39 Prière du matin Matin d'hiver Le Petit cavalier Petite mère Marche des soldats de bois La Nouvelle Poupée La Poupée Malade L'Enterrement de la Poupée Valse Polka Mazurka Chanson Russe Prélude paysan Chanson folk Chanson italienne Vieille chanson française Chanson allemande Chanson napolitaine Nanny's story La Sorcière Douce rêverie Chant de l'alouette À l'Église Le Joueur d'orgue de Barbarie Douze pièces de difficulté moyenne pour piano, op. 40 Étude en sol majeur Chanson triste en sol mineur Marche funèbre en ut mineur Mazurka en ut majeur Mazurka en ré majeur Chant sans paroles en la mineur Au village en la mineur-ut majeur Valse en la bémol majeur Valse en fa dièse mineur Danse russe en la mineur Scherzo en ré mineur Rêverie interrompue en la bémol majeur Yuan Sheng, piano
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 A new album exploring Tchaikovsky the Romantic miniaturist from a distinguished Chinese pianist, renowned for his Bach and Chopin. While we associate Tchaikovsky with music of virtuoso power and difficulty, sweeping up audiences with the fire of the Violin Concerto and First Piano Concerto, he also applied himself to music for the ever-growing market of amateur music-makers during his lifetime. Like many other great composers, he knew how to write for musicians of moderate ability without compromising or simplifying the individuality of his voice as a composer. Also like many great composers, regularly finding himself in grim financial prospects, he tapped into a reliable source of income by supplying publishers who had a seemingly limitless market for music composed with amateur musicians in mind, especially by the acknowledged masters of their day. Both of the cycles recorded here by Yuan Sheng were produced for this market, comprising short pieces, most of them quite simple on the page, but thoroughly imbued with quintessentially Tchaikovskian qualities. As part of his Piano Classics discography, Yuan Sheng recorded The Seasons – Tchaikovsky’s best known solo piano cycle – in 2017. The album was widely welcomed for its serious approach to music which is too often treated trivially. Likewise, he invests these cycles with an authentic delicacy of touch and gravity of expression – in Tchaikovsky, tears are never very far away.

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