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Tchaikovsky: The Seasons / Makropoulou
Brilliant Classics

Tchaikovsky: The Seasons / Makropoulou

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Details

Composer
TCHAIKOVSKY, PYOTR ILYICH
Artist
Sissi Makropoulou
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Jan 03, 2020
Catalog #
BRI96034
UPC
5028421960340

About

Having worked with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Deutsche Oper and MusicAeterna, Sissi Makropoulou has established a reputation among the most talented harpists of her generation, as well as a composer working under the name Sissi Radu. On this, her debut solo album, she brings both talents together. As she explains in her engaging booklet notes, she has been familiar with The Seasons since childhood. They count among the composer’s most intimate works, as well as his most popular. ‘I hear tenderness, benevolence and loneliness – the core of romantic love – in each and every note.’ It is the harp that lends a unique color to some of Tchaikovsky’s most memorable passages such as the cadenzas in Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. In some cases – January, for example - Sissi Makropoulou has transposed the pieces to sit more easily on the harp and to exploit its sumptuous palette of enharmonics. And while the Shrovetide Fair of February presents considerable challenges to the harpist in terms of quicksilver articulation and lightning-fast chord changes, the results speak for themselves in terms of a happy marriage between music and instrument. March, for example, could have been written with the harp in mind. As an encore, Sissi Makropoulou plays her own arrangement of the second movement from Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. The gentle mood of this Andantino ‘in the style of a song’ transfers itself sympathetically to the harp in her hands, and is informed by her experience of playing the composer’s music under one of its most inspirational modern conductors, Teodor Currentzis.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 I. January: By the Fireside 04:56
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. January: By the Fireside
    Duration
    04:56
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Performer
    Sissi Makropoulou
  2. 2 II. February: Carnival 04:09
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. February: Carnival
    Duration
    04:09
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Performer
    Sissi Makropoulou
  3. 3 III. March: Song of the Lark 02:56
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. March: Song of the Lark
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Performer
    Sissi Makropoulou
  4. 4 IV. April: Snowdrop 03:18
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. April: Snowdrop
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Performer
    Sissi Makropoulou
  5. 5 V. May: May Nights 04:08
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. May: May Nights
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Performer
    Sissi Makropoulou
  6. 6 VI. June: Barcarolle 04:43
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. June: Barcarolle
    Duration
    04:43
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Performer
    Sissi Makropoulou
  7. 7 VII. July: Song of the Reaper 02:16
    Track
    7
    Title
    VII. July: Song of the Reaper
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Performer
    Sissi Makropoulou
  8. 8 VIII. August: The Harvest 05:16
    Track
    8
    Title
    VIII. August: The Harvest
    Duration
    05:16
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Performer
    Sissi Makropoulou
  9. 9 IX. September: The Hunt 04:07
    Track
    9
    Title
    IX. September: The Hunt
    Duration
    04:07
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Performer
    Sissi Makropoulou
  10. 10 X. October: Autumn Song 03:46
    Track
    10
    Title
    X. October: Autumn Song
    Duration
    03:46
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Performer
    Sissi Makropoulou
  11. 11 XI. November: Troika 04:03
    Track
    11
    Title
    XI. November: Troika
    Duration
    04:03
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Performer
    Sissi Makropoulou
  12. 12 XII. December: Christmas 05:05
    Track
    12
    Title
    XII. December: Christmas
    Duration
    05:05
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Performer
    Sissi Makropoulou
  13. 13 Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36: II. Andantino in modo di canzona (arr. S. Makropoulou for harp) 11:16
    Track
    13
    Title
    Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36: II. Andantino in modo di canzona (arr. S. Makropoulou for harp)
    Duration
    11:16
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Performer
    Sissi Makropoulou