Saint-Saens & Tchaikovsky / Gabel, Tetreault, Quebec Symphony

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Analekta
Release Date
October 30, 2012
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SAINT-SAENS TCHAIKOVSKY
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Quebec Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Gabel, Tetreault
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 30, 2012
    • UPC
      774204988128
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AN29881
    • LABEL
      Analekta
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Québec

      Performer: Stéphane Tétreault

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    2. II. Allegretto con moto

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Québec

      Performer: Stéphane Tétreault

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    3. III. Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Québec

      Performer: Stéphane Tétreault

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    4. Theme: Moderato quasi andante

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Québec

      Performer: Stéphane Tétreault

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    5. Variation 1

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Québec

      Performer: Stéphane Tétreault

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    6. Variation 2

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Québec

      Performer: Stéphane Tétreault

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    7. Variation 3

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Québec

      Performer: Stéphane Tétreault

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    8. Variation 4

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Québec

      Performer: Stéphane Tétreault

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    9. Variation 5

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Québec

      Performer: Stéphane Tétreault

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    10. Variation 6

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Québec

      Performer: Stéphane Tétreault

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    11. Variation 7 - Coda

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Québec

      Performer: Stéphane Tétreault

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    12. Allegro appassionato in B Minor, Op. 43

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Québec

      Performer: Stéphane Tétreault

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    13. Pezzo capriccioso in B Minor, Op. 62

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Québec

      Performer: Stéphane Tétreault

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    14. Carnival of the Animals: XIII. The Swan (arr. for cello, harp and orchestra)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Québec

      Performer: Stéphane Tétreault, Isabelle Fortier

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel


The early 1870s saw Saint-Saëns driven by a constant desire to surpass himself, which led to several powerful compositions, including the Cello Concerto No. 1. His creative decisions—the expressive treatment of the solo part, the thematic concentration, the concise orchestral developments, the juxtaposition of contrasts, the lack of a traditional orchestral introduction, and the merging of the usual three movements into one—place this concerto in a class of its own.

When German cellist Wilhelm Fitzenhagen—a colleague of Tchaikovsky’s at the Moscow Conservatory who took part in the premieres of three of the latter’s string quartets—received the Variations on a Rococo Theme in 1877, which he had commissioned from Tchaikovsky, he immediately took it on tour.

Quickly realizing how deeply moving audiences found the third variation, “Andante” (they frequently applauded it), Fitzenhagen decided to rework the score by moving this variation to the end and rewriting certain transitions. Tchaikovsky was unaware of this until the work was published in 1889.

Although outraged, the composer let the publication stand, and Tchaikovsky’s original version would not be heard again before 1941; indeed, most cellists did not start playing the original version until the late 1970s.