Tchaikovsky Edition (Deluxe Box Set)

A comprehensive survey of Tchaikovsky’s output, spanning 60CDs with a CD-ROM containing comprehensive booklet notes and sung texts.

This set also contains historical recordings from great interpreters, including Ernest Ansermet in performances of the 6th Symphony and the three great ballets. Byron Janis plays the 1st Piano Concerto, Shura Cherkassky plays the 2nd, and Michael Ponti plays the Taneyev reconstruction of the 3rd concerto. The Oistrakh Trio perform the Piano Trio, and the 1st concerto can be heard again in performances by Lev Oborin and Emil Gilels, Sviatoslav Richter and Yevgeny Kissin. Leonid Kogan and David Oistrakh can be heard in the Violin Concerto.

In addition to these fascinating documents, the 6 symphonies, all the chamber music, songs and piano works can be heard in modern recordings. The operas are presented in historical Russian recordings from the Bolshoi with some great Russian voices of the 20th century.

Works include: Symphonies 1-6, Manfred, Overtures, Piano Concertos 1, 2 & 3 (complete) Concert Fantasy, Violin Concerto, Rococo Variations, String Quartets, Piano Trio, Sextet, The Seasons, Piano Sonatas, Album for the Young, Piano Pieces, Eugene Onegin, The Oprichnik, Cherevichki, The Maid of Orleans, Iolantha, Queen of Spades, The Sorceress, Mazeppa, Songs, The Snow Maiden, Orchestral Suites 1-4, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Serenade for Strings, Liturgy for St John Chrysostom, etc

Artists include: Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, David Oistrakh, Leonid Kogan, Evgeny Kissin, Byron Janis, Shura Cherkassky, Michael Ponti; conductors Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Evgeny Mravinsky, Yuri Simonov, Vladimir Fedoseyev.