Tchaikovsky: Secular Choruses

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Release Date: 13th Jun 2011
Catalogue No: 94210
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 54 minutes

Tchaikovsky: Vecher (Evening)

Work length2:38

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Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

Tchaikovsky: Children's Songs, Op. 54

Work length5:39

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Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

No. 14, Osen' [Autumn]

Track length3:43

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No. 16, Detskaya pesenka [Children's Song]

Track length1:56

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Tchaikovsky: Blazhen, kto ulibayetsya

Work length2:11

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Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

Blazhen, kto ulibayetsya (Blessed Is He Who Smiles) [Blessed Is He Who Smiles]

Track length2:11

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Tchaikovsky: Why does the sound of the revels grow silent?

Work length2:10

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Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

Tchaikovsky: Bez porï, da bez vremeni (Without Time, Without Season)

Work length2:28

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Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

Bez pori, da bez vremeni [Without Time, Without Season]

Track length2:28

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Excerpt, Tchaikovsky: Album for the Young, Op. 39

Work length2:29

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Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

No. 16, Melodie antique francaise (Arr. For choir)

Track length2:29

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Tchaikovsky: 6 Duets in Op. 46

Work length3:46

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Tamara Kravtchenko
Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

No. 6, Rassvet (Dawn) [arr. For choir]

Track length3:46

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Tchaikovsky: Priroda i lyubov' (Nature and Love)

Work length5:52

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Vera Trifonova, Natalia Savelieva, Anetta Michina, Tamara Kravtchenko
Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

Tchaikovsky: Na son gryadushchiy (1st version for unaccompanied choir) [At Bedtime]

Work length4:03

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Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

Tchaikovsky: Nochevala tuchka zolotaya (the Golden Cloud has Slept)

Work length2:17

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Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

Tchaikovsky: A greeting to Anton Rubinstein

Work length2:44

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Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

Tchaikovsky: The Nightingale Op. 60 No. 4

Work length3:39

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Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

Tchaikovsky: Ne kukushechka vo sïrom boru ('Tis not the Cuckoo in the Damp Pinewoo)

Work length2:34

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Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

Ne kukushechka vo sirom boru ['Tis not the Cuckoo in the Damp Pinewoo]

Track length2:34

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Tchaikovsky: 12 Romances, Op. 60, No. 9. Noch' (Night)

Work length4:14

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Tamara Kravtchenko
Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

Tchaikovsky: Hymn to Cyril and Methodius

Work length2:31

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Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

Tchaikovsky: Children's Songs, Op. 54

Work length2:34

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Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

No. 5, Legenda (Legend)

Track length2:34

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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act III

Work length2:13

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Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Victor Popov

In the Castle of Prince Siegfried: Neapolitan Dance (Arr. Klimov)

Track length2:13

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In the field of choral music Tchaikovsky is known as the first Russian composer to have composed cycles of the Liturgy and the Vespers, but his considerable output of secular choral music is less well-known, and a delightful surprise. These secular choruses are little jewels, written for various types of choir, with all the familiar qualities of melody and rich harmony that we associate with Tchaikovsky.

Some, including Autumn, Child’s Song and A Legend (from 16 Children’s Songs Op.54), and the pastoral Dawn were written for solo voice or duet, and Night, a vocal quartet with piano, but Tchaikovsky soon realised that they sounded better as choruses. Autumn and Child’s Song both have a tenor solo, and contrast well with each other: a misty autumnal poem of lethargic melancholy and a comical, playful little ditty. Another highlight is the melancholy Old French Air, with its timeless charm, which also appears as a minstrel’s song in Tchaikovsky’s opera The Maid of Orleans. Other works of note include the radiant Nature and Love, a sentimental trio for soprano, mezzo and contralto, three-part female chorus and piano, and the meditative nocturne Before Sleep, composed in his student years. Greeting to Anton Rubinstein is an extraordinary seven part piece written for the 50th anniversary of Rubinstein’s career.

The Nightingale is without a doubt Tchaikovsky’s finest achievement in choral music, a magnificent reconstruction of a folk song. The vocal quartet Night is a tribute to Mozart, who Tchaikovsky idolised, and is an arrangement of the middle section of Mozart’s Fantasy in C minor for piano. The finale, Neapolitan Air, is a little choral divertissement whose tune was derived from Swan Lake.

Tchaikovsky: Secular Choruses

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