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To the pianist, the rawness and vulnerability of human emotions' displayed in Tchaikovsky's music is almost unparalleled, something which his own performance here serve to confirm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan id=\"ctl00_MainContent_gvReviews_cell2_12_ASPxPopupControl1_ASPxLabel2\" class=\"dxeBase_PlasticBlue\"\u003eEvgeny Sudbin releases an entire SACD of piano music by Piotr Tchaikovsky. These are partly original works from the well-known piano cycles or Sudbin’s own transcriptions of pieces such as \u003cem\u003eWaltz of the Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWaltz\u003c\/em\u003e from Sleeping Beauty, \u003cem\u003eRomeo \u0026amp; Juliet\u003c\/em\u003e Fantasy Overture and Glinka’s \u003cem\u003eRuslan \u0026amp; Ludmila\u003c\/em\u003e Overture. All of this is played with virtuosity, elegance, and brilliance. Sudbin has a phenomenal technique, he is a virtuoso of the best kind, for his playing is very musical and sensitive. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"dxeBase_PlasticBlue\"\u003e-- Pizzicato (Remy Franck)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSudbin and daughter sparkle fairy dust over Tchaikovsky’s works for piano.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite our emergence from the global pandemic – some of us sooner than others – lockdown projects keep popping up on disc. This one, from Russian-born, British pianist Yevgeny Sudbin, is especially rewarding, featuring enjoyable arrangements of Tchaikovsky ‘s orchestral music alongside miniature gems that are often underrepresented in recital.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSudbin opens with a bravura take on one of Tchaikovsky’s avowed favourites: the showstopping overture from Glinka’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRuslan and Ludmila\u003c\/em\u003e. In his sleeve notes, the pianist recalls the countless times he’s been forced to wait in the wings listening to the swirling strings and thundering timpani that drive this most ubiquitous of orchestral works. His arrangement, he laughs, is by way of revenge, but the joke’s on him as it is the pianist who has to grapple here with fiendish fingerings, virtuoso flourishes and hand-numbing glissandos. That aside, it’s a rip-roaring way to open a disc and Sudbin – hands flying across the keyboard – gets the spirit of the thing just right in a no-holds-barred performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe disc concludes with a real coup: Sudbin’s arrangement of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOverture-Fantasy Romeo and Juliet\u003c\/em\u003e, a work easily taken for granted, but one that reveals remarkable depths in its solo piano guise. 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Rozhdestzensky is still with us but, for some reason, only a very occasional visitor to the UK and more's the pity; in his excellent booklet notes, David Nice asks 'Is Gennadi Rozhdestvensky the greatest ever conductor of ballet scores?', and, on the evidence of this Nutcracker, which is ideally paced at every turn, it's hard to disagree. \u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e  Although proportioned something like a conventional concert programme, this selection of performances actually derives from two 1981 Proms, during Rozhdestvensky's relatively brief tenure as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony. The 2nd Act of the  \u003ci\u003eNutcracker\u003c\/i\u003e was filmed at the end of July and was preceded by a choral version of Mussorgsky's  \u003ci\u003eNight on Bare Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e (the choir can be seen seated behind the orchestra during the Tchaikovsky), Prokofiev's  \u003ci\u003eUgly Ducking\u003c\/i\u003e and Scriabin's  \u003ci\u003ePrometheus\u003c\/i\u003e. 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