Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 'Winter Dreams' & The Tempest

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The First Symphony makes a beguiling start with magical restraint, the wind phase properly articulated and the second theme allowed to billow in a way that suggests a fine-tuned Tchaikovsky interpreter... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 4th Nov 2016
Catalogue No: HMC902220
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 68 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

February 2017

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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13 'Winter Daydreams'

Work length44:15

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Orchestra Of St. Luke's, Pablo Heras-Casado

I. Dreams of a Winter Journey (Allegro tranquillo)

Track length11:24

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II. Land of Desolation, Land, of Mists (Adagio cantabile ma non tanto)

Track length12:05

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$1.75

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III. Scherzo (Allegro scherzando giocoso)

Track length8:03

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IV. Finale (Andante lugubre - Allegro moderato - Allegro maestoso - Allegro vivo)

Track length12:43

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Tchaikovsky: The Tempest, Op. 18

Work length24:03

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Orchestra Of St. Luke's, Pablo Heras-Casado

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Pablo Heras-Casado enjoys an unusually varied conducting career—encompassing the great symphonic and operatic repertoire, historically informed performance and cutting-edge contemporary scores. He has served as Principal Conductor of Orchestra of St. Luke’s since 2011, now extended to September 2017. OSL began as a chamber ensemble based at The Church of St. Luke in the Fields in Greenwich Village. Today, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble consists of 21 virtuoso artists who perform a diverse repertoire and make up OSL’s artistic core. harmonia mundi are proud to release OSL's debut album for the label featuring two of Tchaikovsky's earliest notable works, both of which are dramatic and vibrant: Symphony No. 1, 'Winter Dreams' and 'The Tempest', a sprawling and turbulent seascape.

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February 2017

The First Symphony makes a beguiling start with magical restraint, the wind phase properly articulated and the second theme allowed to billow in a way that suggests a fine-tuned Tchaikovsky interpreter … Heras-Casado makes you wonder at the incredible refinement of Tchaikovsky’s most daring symphonic fantasia before Manfred, from the 13 part strings and eerie modulations of Prospero’s seascape to the beauty of the love music

February 2017

The work he does has its place and time...There is throughout the symphony a continence of rhetoric that may appeal to anyone not unshakably attached to Golovanov, Svetlanov and their kin...Heras-Casado has me wondering about a new wave of Tchaikovsky performance: shunning hysteria and crocodile tears, painting pictures, telling stories.

20th January 2017

[there is]...tangible chemistry between the Spaniard and his New York-based Orchestra of St Luke’s. They explore two very different sides to Tchaikovsky on one disc: a lean, lithe performance of the First Symphony, Winter Dreams, and an excitingly baleful take on the not-very Shakespearean tone poem The Tempest

Record Review 11th December 2016

You can hear the New York ensemble’s roots as a chamber orchestra, lithe and responsive, the chill of those glittering strings warmed by the wind choir, and Heras Casado’s pacing is spot on for me, never trying to make too much of this wintry symphony. The land of desolation and mists’, the slow movement, is especially successful

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 'Winter Dreams' & The Tempest

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