P. I. Tchaikovsky: Ballet Music – USSR State Symphony Orchestra & Evgeni Svetlanov

P. I. Tchaikovsky: Ballet Music Swan Lake, Nutracker Suites, Polonaises (Sleeping Beauty, Cherevicki)

Suite from the ballet ‘Swan Lake’ Op.20a

1. Scene
2. Waltz
3. Dance of the Cygnets
4. Scene
5. Hungarian dance (czardas)
6. Spanish dance
7. Neapolitan dance
8. Mazurka
9. Scene

Suite from the ballet ‘The Nutcracker’ Op.71a, Overture miniature

Dances caracteristiques:

1. March
2. Danse de le fee – dragee
3. Trepak (danse Russe)
4. Danse Arabe
5. Danse des Chinoise
6. Danse des mirlitons
7. Pas de Deux
8. Valse des fleurs
9. Polonaise from the opera “Cherevichki” (Little Shoes)
10. Polonaise from the ballet ‘Sleeping Beauty’

“Summing up Svetlanov’s Tchaikovsky is fairly easy in that everything is played either from the gut or from the heart, brilliance is a given, subtle observation less consistent but the sum effect is compelling.”

“The playing of the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra is often quite brilliant, the characterisation imaginative … listening to the set made me realise just how much Svetlanov is missed. He certainly didn’t hold anything back” (Gramophone)