Tchaikovsky: Album for the Young op. 39 & 12 Pieces for Piano op. 40 / Yuan Sheng

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Label
Piano Classics
Release Date
May 27, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    • PERFORMER
      Yuan Sheng
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 27, 2022
    • UPC
      5029365102452
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PCL10245
    • LABEL
      Piano Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Morning Prayer (Priere du matin)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    2. No. 2. Winter Morning (Le matin en hiver)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    3. No. 4. Hobbyhorse (Le petit cavalier)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    4. No. 3. Mamma (Maman)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    5. No. 5. The Toy Soldiers' March (Marche des soldats de bois)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    6. No. 7. Dolly Is Ill (La poupée malade)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    7. No. 8. Dolly's Funeral (Enterrement de la poupée)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    8. No. 9. Waltz (Valse)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    9. No. 6. My New Dolly (La nouvelle poupée)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    10. No. 13. Peasant Prelude (Le paysan prelude)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    11. No. 11. Mazurka

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    12. No. 12. Russian Song (Chanson russe)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    13. No. 14. Popular Song (Kamarinskaya, Chanson populaire)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    14. No. 10. Polka

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    15. No. 15. Italian Song (Chanson italienne)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    16. No. 16. Old French Song (Melodie antique francaise)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    17. No. 17. German Song (Chanson allemande)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    18. No. 18. Neapolitan Song (Chanson napolitaine)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    19. No. 19. A Nursery Tale (Conte de la vieille bonne)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    20. No. 20. The Witch Baba Yaga (La sorciere)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    21. No. 21. Sweet Dreams (Douce rêverie)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    22. No. 22. The Lark (Chant de L'alouette)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    23. No. 24. The Organ-Grinder's Song (L'orgue de barbarie)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    24. No. 23. At Church (A L'eglise)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    25. No. 1. Etude

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    26. No. 2. Chanson triste

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    27. No. 3. Marche funèbre

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    28. No. 4. Mazurka in C Major

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    29. No. 5. Mazurka in D Major

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    30. No. 6. Chant sans paroles

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    31. No. 7. Au village

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    32. No. 8. Valse in A-Flat Major

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    33. No. 9. Valse in F-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    34. No. 10. Danse russe

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    35. No. 11. Scherzo

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    36. No. 12. Rêverie interrompue

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Yuan Sheng


While we associate Tchaikovsky with music of virtuoso power and difficulty, sweeping up audiences with the fire of the Violin Concerto and First Piano Concerto, he also applied himself to music for the ever-growing market of amateur music-makers during his lifetime. Like many other great composers, he knew how to write for musicians of moderate ability without compromising or simplifying the individuality of his voice as a composer. Also like many great composers, regularly finding himself in grim financial prospects, he tapped into a reliable source of income by supplying publishers who had a seemingly limitless market for music composed with amateur musicians in mind, especially by the acknowledged masters of their day. Both of the cycles recorded here by Yuan Sheng were produced for this market, comprising short pieces, most of them quite simple on the page, but thoroughly imbued with quintessentially Tchaikovskian qualities.

As part of his Piano Classics discography, Yuan Sheng recorded The Seasons – Tchaikovsky’s best known solo piano cycle – in 2017. The album was widely welcomed for its serious approach to music which is too often treated trivially. Likewise, he invests these cycles with an authentic delicacy of touch and gravity of expression – in Tchaikovsky, tears are never very far away.