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~ Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (Composer), Kent Nagano (Conductor), Russian National Orchestra (Orchestra), Nikolai Lugansky (Piano), Christian Tetzlaff (Violin)
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  • Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra
  • Conductor: Kent Nagano
  • Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
  • Audio CD (22 Sep 2003)
  • Please Note: Requires SACD-compatible hardware
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Hybrid SACD, SACD
  • Label: Pentatone
  • ASIN: B0000BX5LQ
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 163,813 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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On this CD:
  1. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D
    Composed by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
    Performed by Russian National Orchestra
    with Christian Tetzlaff
    Conducted by Kent Nagano

  2. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B flat minor
    Composed by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
    Performed by Russian National Orchestra
    with Nikolai Lugansky
    Conducted by Kent Nagano

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Fine performances but over-close sound, 27 Mar 2005
By P. SIMPSON "nucaleena" (North Yorkshire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Gramophone and the Good Cd guide rate this disc very highly. I can agree so far as operformances are concerned, but this is another Pentatone disc which is let down by over-close sound.

Christian Tetzlaff, Nikolai Lugansky and Kent Nagano are reliable and trusted interpreters. Their performances are certainly reliable and trustworthy, but that won't quite do in these concertos, which need the magic of a Kyung Wha Chung (Decca) in the Violin C'to or the panache of a Marta Argerich (piano) to really take off. Even underneath the close sound, those characteristics aren't present - at least I don't think they are.

The Russian National Orchestra under Pletnev has made some superb-sounding discs for Virgin and even DG (whose sound I don't normally like). You wouldn't know it was the same orchestra here. The recording venue doesn't help. The Moscow Conservatory Concert Hall is just too big and blousy for the music. It should have been an appropriate sound for "big" Tchaikovsky but Polyhymnia's engineering doesn't let us hear too much of any kind of acoustic.

What it does let us hear is a heck of a lot of low-level sub vocalisation, or is it some kind of surround-echo (??) almost constantly throughout the two pieces. And a lot of very close, over-centred orchestral and instrumental sounds. At times Tetzlaff's violin is recorded so closely that it sounds scrawny, which isn't like him (on other records). At others the closeness has the effect of making his violin very forceful but relatively unsubtle. He's also so close that, in a too-centred recording, his violin takes up almost all the left speaker, from centre through to extreme left. Totally unnatural.

The piano's opening chords are completely stripped of any resonance or warmth. They die the minute they're born. Whilst strings can soar, they don't soar very high, - instead, they tend to soar very, very close. That can sound impressive but to my ears doesn't sound at all warm or especially musical. Timpani and other instruments sound close and clear but are cut-off from any warm resonance by the closeness of the miking. When there is resonance it tends to be very short and sudden rather than anything which genuinely resounds, even in surround.

Bear in mind that this is a personal gripe and obviously other listeners won't feel it to the same extent, but I want to hear music live and breathe, not thump and die.

UPDATE AND ADDITION: Erdo Groot, Pentatone's balance engineer has sent a very informative and helpful response to this review. His comments are reproduced below.

"Coming back to some of your judgments of Tchaikovsky concerto and serenade disk. I can assure you the microphones were not very close to the soloist and orchestra, and listening again yesterday at the importer of Quad on 5 of the big electrostatic speakers, I could hear none of the low end reflections you mention nor a shrillness or harshness in tone of Tetzlaff and very natural and 'warm', if not over resonant, string sound in the orchestra, with clear acoustic signature of the hall around the direct sound.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Music and an Outstanding Recording, 29 Mar 2005
By M. Jones "Mark" - See all my reviews
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I have regretfully just got back from holiday where I have left this CD behind. I simply have to buy this again. Without hesitancy I can certainly say this is one of the best recordings of the two pieces I have ever heard. The sound is crisp, clear and precise. Colour, effervescence and vivacity describe the two soloists who are masters in their own right. Give this cd the respect it deserves, play it on a good quality system and the difference will become apparent.
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