Boris Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (1969)

Classical Music Discord: Boris Tchaikovsky ( 1925 - 1996 ) Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Чайко́вский; 10 September 1925 – 7 February 1996), PAU, was a Soviet and Russian composer, born in Moscow, whose oeuvre includes orchestral works, chamber music and film music. He is considered as part of the second generation of Russian composers, following in the steps of Pyotr Tchaikovsky (to whom he was not related) and especially Mussorgsky. He was admired by Dmitri Shostakovich, with whom he studied, who (according to Per Skans in his notes for a recording) suggested in a letter of 1 February 1969 to Isaak Glikman, that “If Barshai’s orchestra (the Moscow chamber orchestra) makes a guest appearance in Leningrad playing Vainberg’s Tenth Symphony and Boris Tchaikovsky’s Sinfonietta, you really have to hear them“. Of his larger-scale works almost all have been recorded. Boris Tchaikovsky generally wrote in a tonal style, although he made brief forays into serialism. Violin Concerto ( 1969 ) Boris Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto (1969) was one of the major works of his career, yet it is virtually unknown in the west, where much of this Russian composer’s music still languishes in obscurity, when it’s not mistaken for that of a better known master. Even so, this concerto is the kind of well-crafted, virtuosic, and deeply expressive music violinists would love to play if only they knew of it, and the kind of transcendental and communicative music that contemporary audiences value, if only they could hear it. Too bad, though, that this live 1994 performance by violinist Victor Pikaizen and the Odense Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Edward Serov, suffers from the expected deficiencies of a concert recording, mostly in the abundant audience noises, unfocused miking, and tentative playing from some parts of the orchestra. Instrumentation for Violin and Orchestra Performer Viktor Pikayzen (Violin), Kirill Kondrashin Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra The music published in my channel is exclusively dedicated to divulgation purposes and not commercial. This within a program shared to study classic educational music which involves thousands of people around the world. If someone, for any reason, would deem that a video appearing in this channel violates the copyright, please inform me immediately before you submit a claim to Youtube, and it will be my care to immediately remove the video accordingly. Your collaboration will be appreciated. #sheetmusic #classicalmusic