NOVEMBER 2012 | CODAEX UK | RELEASE DATE 12.11.2012

This is the penultimate release in the Tchaikovsky Symphonies
cycle by the best Russian Orchestra conducted by its Music
Director Mikhail Pletnev. The whole series has been critically
acclaimed across the globe and this one will be eagerly awaited
by collectors of the series.
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NOVEMBER 2012 | CODAEX UK | RELEASE DATE 12.11.2012
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No.3, Coronation March
Russian National Orchestra, Cond. Pletnev
CAT.NO.: PTC 5186383
FORMAT: 1SACD
PPD: £ 9.25
LABEL: PentaTone
BARCODE: 827949038365
GENRE: Symphony
Acclaim for Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1
The performance is Pletnev’s best in his PentaTone Tchaikovsky
cycle thus far.... The Slavonic March [is] among the best, most
exciting interpretations of the work you’re likely to hear... “
Classical Candor
(February 2012)
Acclaim for Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2
“... a crackerjack Second.... Pletnev knows how to build to
the big chorale, scurry long with the many string whirlwinds
ever-present in the piece, and give us brassy blow-you-away
entrances. [There] is no quarter to slackness or mellowness;
he treats this work as the blockbuster it is, and in the end we come
away very satisfied.”
Audiophile Audition (July 2012)
Acclaim for Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
“Pletnev brings a winning simplicity to the opening melody of
the Andantino second movement, and the gear change
to the faster middle section is negotiated with skill and
eloquence.... the playing is brilliant.”
BBC Music Magazine (June 2011)
Acclaim for Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
“There is so much to admire here... Details are invariably
surprising... Rubatos, too, are elegantly turned, the
phrasing eminently pianistic in that it is so quick of reflex. Of
course, it takes an orchestra of extraordinary dexterity to pull
off these subtly shifting nuances – and the Russian National
Orchestra is extraordinarily responsive. Their playing is chamberlike
in inflection, just writ larger. Is there a more graceful or deftly
articulate account of the third-movement Valse on disc than this?”
Gramophone (November 2011)
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