Klarinet Archive - Posting 000517.txt from 2002/10
From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com> Subj: [kl] Fwd: Boris Tchaikovsky Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 17:51:31 -0400
I thought I would share this with the list as I was completely unfamiliar
with this composer. There is an excerpt of a recording of the Clarinet
Concerto. It really isn't long enough to form an opinion.
Gary
>Reply-To: Igor Prokhorov <iopro@-----.ru>
>Priority: Normal
>To: info@-----.com
>Subject: Boris Tchaikovsky
>
>Dear Mr. Gary Van Cott,
>
>I would like to tell you that I consider the site "Van Cott
>Information Services" as very interesting and useful.
>
>I am the member of Boris Tchaikovsky Society, and the Web-master of
>the site, devoted to life and music of B.Tchaikovsky [1925-1996], the
>favorite pupil of great D.Shostakovich; who was able to create his own
>unique musical style (there is the brief information about him below).
>
>Site is updating by musicologists and Russian composers - pupils of
>Boris Tchaikovsky; with assistance of other composers and friends of
>Boris Tchaikovsky; with approval of composer's widow. Here is the link
>to the site: http://www.mmv.ru/p/bt
>
>Let me inform you that Boris Tchaikovsky composed few works for wind
>instruments.
>
>For example, Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra (1957) -
>issued on CD by "OCCAM RECORDS".
>
>And relatively recently his Sextet for Wind instruments and Harp
>(1990) was issued by "BOHEME MUSIC" (CDBMR 907084) and should be
>available on market.
>
>Please, let me know if this information is interesting for you.
>
>Let me wish you all the best and every success!
>
>Very truly yours,
>
>Igor Prokhorov
>(Moscow)
>
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>Boris Tchaikovsky [1925-1996]:
>
>Studied at Moscow Conservatoire (on a class of a composition with
>V.Shebalin, D.Shostakovich, N.Miaskovsky, on a class of piano with
>L.Oborin). His music was performed and recorded by such prominent
>orchestras as Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra,
>Leningrad Chamber Orchestra of Early and Modern Music, TV and Radio of
>the USSR Large Symphony Orchestra (P.Tchaikovsky Large Symphony
>Orchestra), and some others, with conductors A.Gauk, S.Samosud,
>K.Kondrashin, R.Barshai, V.Fedoseyev, M.Janssons, V.Gergiev and by
>soloists G.Vishnevskaia, M.Rostropovich, V.Pikaizen, E.Moskvitina and
>other. CDs and LPs with music of B.Tchaikovsky were issued on such
>labels, as MELODIYA, EMI, BOHEME, Pantom and other.
>
>
>"...I consider him [B.Tchaikovsky - iop] to be a genius, whose
>contribution to the cello repertoire has yet to be sufficiently
>appreciated. I remember that after the first performance of his Cello
>Concerto Dmitry Shostakovich declared his intention of uncovering the
>secret of the work's "unearthly beauty".... I do think that one day
>people will come to know that two great Russian composers bore the
>same name [Boris Tchaikovsky and Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky - iop]..."
> [Mstislav Rostropovich, Introduction to EMI's CD-set]
>
>"...Boris Tchaikovsky is very gifted young composer with good
>composers technique and undoubtedly big creative individuality..."
> [Nikolai Miaskovsky]
>
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