The orchestral music of Tchaikovsky

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

- it's almost the Alpine Symphony of my collection -39 recordings inc takes from radio!

That's cheating

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Its on the Pletnev set mentioned by IGI in post #13

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've been listening to some of this Pletnev set on Spotify tonight and very good it is too - its now gone on my wish list as well !

[teamsaint]

Oh dear...that Pletnev set looks almost irresistable.....surely it's almost payday?...........

[Pabmusic]

One of the best Tchaikovsky discs ever made has to be the performances of Francesca da Rimini and Hamlet on the Everest label with Stokowski conducting the Stadium Concerts SO, otherwise known as the New York Philharmonic. There are many fine performances of Francesca, but none as incandescent as this, and Hamlet is also superb.

Spot on. I'd forgotten it, but I have it hear in my collection.

[BBMmk2]

The Pletnev set of Tchaikovsky's symphonic poems on a DG Trio is a gem of an reissue, including a very fine Manfred Symphony as well. Francesca da Rimini is a work which frequently gets overlooked, but its a dramatic, blazing work. I last heard it (or at least part of it) last week when it concludes the John Cranko ballet version of Onegin.

Thank ypou Petrusshka!Duly noted andhgoing on my amazon wish list!! Ahhh....