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Tchaikovsky - The Seasons | Brilliant Classics 96034

Tchaikovsky - The Seasons

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 96034

Barcode: 5028421960340

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 13th December 2019

Contents

Artists

Sissi Makropoulou (harp)

Works

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Symphony no.4 in F minor, op.36
» II Andantino (arr. Sissi Makropoulou for harp)
The Seasons, op.37a (arr. Sissi Makropoulou for harp)

Artists

Sissi Makropoulou (harp)

About

Tchaikovsky’s evergreen collection of miniatures in a new and captivating arrangement for harp.

Having worked with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Deutsche Oper and MusicAeterna, Sissi Makropoulou has established a reputation among the most talented harpists of her generation, as well as a composer working under the name Sissi Radu. On this, her debut solo album, she brings both talents together. As she explains in her engaging booklet notes, she has been familiar with The Seasons since childhood. They count among the composer’s most intimate works, as well as his most popular. ‘I hear tenderness, benevolence and loneliness – the core of romantic love – in each and every note.’

It is the harp that lends a unique colour to some of Tchaikovsky’s most memorable passages such as the cadenzas in Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. In some cases – January, for example - Sissi Makropoulou has transposed the pieces to sit more easily on the harp and to exploit its sumptuous palette of enharmonics. And while the Shrovetide Fair of February presents considerable challenges to the harpist in terms of quicksilver articulation and lightning-fast chord changes, the results speak for themselves in terms of a happy marriage between music and instrument. March, for example, could have been written with the harp in mind.

As an encore, Sissi Makropoulou plays her own arrangement of the second movement from Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. The gentle mood of this Andantino ‘in the style of a song’ transfers itself sympathetically to the harp in her hands, and is informed by her experience of playing the composer’s music under one of its most inspirational modern conductors, Teodor Currentzis.

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