Conductor(s): Kuchar, Theodore
Label: Naxos
Genre: Orchestral
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: 8.554845
Barcode: 636943484524
Release Date: 03/2006

TCHAIKOVSKY: Dances and Overtures

This recording of Tchaikovsky orchestral rarities includes the early, reconstructed symphonic poem, Fatum, which incorporates the ‘fate motifs’ of the last three symphonies with something of the ebb and flow of a Liszt rhapsody. The overtures and dances are from operas less often heard in international repertoire than the established Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades. They range from the very Russian sounding Overture to The Voyevoda, Tchaikovsky’s first opera, to the Cossack-inspired Gopak from Mazeppa.

Tracklist

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
1 Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades), Op. 68, Act I: Overture 03:58
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
2 Fatum (Fate), Op. 77 15:28
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
3 Voyevoda (The Provincial Governor), Op. 3, Act I: Overture 09:21
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
4 Act I: Entr'acte Act II 03:22
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
5 Act II: Danse des Bohemiens 03:44
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
6 Act II: Danse des Polichinelles et des Histrions 04:21
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
7 Danse russe 03:52
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
8 Danse des Cosaques 03:26
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
9 Introduction 05:31
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
10 Danse des Histrions 03:56
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
11 Mazeppa, Act I: Gopak 04:21
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)
12 Oprichnik (The Guardsman), Act IV: Danses 05:47
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kuchar, Theodore (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 01:07:07