Tchaikovsky: Opera & Song Transcriptions for Solo Piano / Severus

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Grand Piano
Release Date
October 11, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      FRUHLING TCHAIKOVSKY VOSS
    • PERFORMER
      Julia Severus
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 11, 2019
    • UPC
      747313979523
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GP795
    • LABEL
      Grand Piano
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Kolïbel'naya pesnya (Cradle Song)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    2. No. 4. O, spoy zhe tu pesnyu (O Sing that Song)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    3. No. 5. Tak chto zhe? (So What, Then?)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    4. 6 Romances, Op. 6: No. 5. Otchevo? (Why?) (arr. J. Severus for piano)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    5. 6 Romances, Op. 28: No. 3. Zachem? (Why?) (arr. V. Laub for piano)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    6. Khotel bï v edinoye slovo (I Should Like a Single Word) (arr. J. Severus for piano)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    7. 6 Romances, Op. 73: No. 6. Snova, kak prezhde, odin (Again, as Before, Alone) (arr. J. Severus for piano)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    8. 6 Romances, Op. 73: No. 1. Mï sideli s toboy (We Sat Together) (arr. A. Bernard for piano)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    9. 7 Romances, Op. 47: No. 6. Den' li tsarit? (Does the Day Reign?) (arr. J. Severus for piano)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    10. 6 Romances, Op. 63: No. 5. Uzh gasli v komnatakh ogni (The Fires in the Rooms Were Already Out) (arr. A. Bernard for piano)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    11. Fantaisie caractéristique sur des motifs de Vakoula le Forgeron de Tchaikovsky (Characteristic Fantasy on motifs of Tchaikovsky's Vakula the Smith), Op. 319

      Composer: Charles Voss

      Performer: Julia Severus

    12. 6 Romances, Op. 6: No. 3. I bol'no, i sladko (It Is Both Painful and Sweet) (arr. J. Nagel for piano)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    13. 6 Romances, Op. 38: No. 1. Serenada Don-Zhuana (Don Juan's Serenade) (arr. A. Bernard for piano)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    14. 6 Romances, Op. 27: No. 3. Ne otkhodi ot menya! (Do not Leave Me!) (arr. V. Laub for piano)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    15. 6 Romances, Op. 73: No. 2. Noch' (Night) (arr. H. Pachulski for piano)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    16. 6 Romances, Op. 6: No. 6. Net, tol'ko tot, kto znal (No, Only One who has Known), "None but the Lonely Heart" (arr. J. Severus for piano)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    17. 12 Romances, Op. 60: No. 1. Vcherashnyaya noch' (Last Night) (arr. V. Laub for piano)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    18. 6 Romances, Op. 63: No. 2. Rastvoril ya okno (I Opened the Window) (arr. A. Bernard for piano)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    19. 12 Romances, Op. 60: No. 6. Nochi bezumnïye (Frenzied Nights) (arr. A. Bernard for piano)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    20. 12 Romances, Op. 60: No. 11. Podvig (The Heroic Deed) (arr. J. Severus for piano)

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Julia Severus

    21. Fantasy on Eugene Onegin

      Composer: Carl Frühling

      Performer: Julia Severus


Tchaikovsky wrote over 100 lyric art songs or Romances, a sequence of diaries of the soul that embrace moods from euphoria to despair. They were unusually important to him, and he, or his editors, commissioned piano transcriptions by eminent musicians such as Laub and others, all of which were revised by Tchaikovsky. These poetic and melodically beautiful songs, many of which are here recorded for the first time, include the ravishing None but the Lonely Heart and reveal a ‘new’ body of Tchaikovsky’s piano repertoire. The album concludes with an opera fantasy on themes from Eugene Onegin by the Austrian composer and pianist Carl Fruhling. Julia Severus graduated from the Berlin University of Arts and from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied piano with Mikhail Voskresensky and Lev Naumov. Wishing to explore piano ensemble repertoire, she founded the Aurora Duo and Quartet, performing numerous premieres and world premieres, among them Rodion Shchedrin’s Hommage a Chopin in the presence of the composer.

 

REVIEW:

 

The range of songs is wide. The most famous of the set, generally known in English as None but the lonely heart, is arranged by Severus. She has replaced the syncopations of the original accompaniment with triplets that meander around the vocal line. In general, I find that the extra little touches of fantasy in Severus’s transcriptions make for more effective piano solos than the others on the disc. That said, Tchaikovsky’s gift for melody and drama make all these pieces worth hearing.

 

Severus finds the mood and style effectively, and generally plays very well. Overall, this is a very enjoyable and well-balanced recital.

 

– MusicWeb International