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Tchaikovsky - The Snow Maiden (Complete) - Symphony No. 2



(Lesser Known Tchaikovsky, Part III)





Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" - Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra / Eugene Goossens



The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka), Op. 12 (Complete) - Introduction and Incidental Music to Alexander Ostrovsky's Drama -
USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Gauk / K. Ptitsa, Chorus Director / Zara Dolukhanova, Mezzo Soprano /
Alexander Orfenov, Tenor 





Reviewing the 1941 RCA issue of composer / conductor Eugene Goosens directing Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2, music critic
and annotator Irving Kolodin wrote:



"It is good to have so capable an orchestra as the Cincinnati on discs, but it is even better to have the aware
musicianship and warm sympathies of Goossens employed to the advantage of this lively, well-constructed score.... The
recording is excellent." ("New Guide to Recorded Music," Doubleday, 1941; revised edition, 1947)



When Kolodin says that the recording is "excellent," he's referring, of course, to its sound. However, Kolodin
might also have said the same concerning Goossens' total grasp of the work, a quality which continues to make this
version of Tchaikovsky's Second Symphony in many ways the most satisfying one for this listener. The years since the
first hearing of this recording have only reinforced an appreciation for its fresh, vigorous and sharply delineated
rendering (the first hearing being around 1963 - actually, the first encounter with the music itself since no other
recording of the Second Symphony was at hand during this time ... but a fortunate introduction, discovered among the
unplayed 78 rpm albums in the local public library). Among his own compositions, the Second Symphony was one of
Tchaikovsky's most favored; and Goossens appears to have shared this estimation ... coupled with a composer's insight
which he put to very good use in this performance. Little wonder, then, that the recordings of Goossens seem to be
attracting renewed interest. After this forward-looking recording was made, considerable time would pass before a
comparable version of the Second Symphony appeared on discs.  



From the notes for Tchaikovsky's Incidental Music for Ostrovsky's "The Snow Maiden": 



"Nikolai Kashkin, a noted Russian music critic and a friend of Tchaikovsky, wrote the following in regard to the
circumstances surrounding Tchaikonyovsky's composition of incidental music to Ostrovsky's play 'The Snow Maiden: 'The
three weeks during which Tchaikovsky was working at the music of 'Snegurochka' were a happy time with him. In the year
1873 the smaller (Moscow) theatre was renovated, and while work was proceeding, the three companies, opera, ballet, and
dramatic, gave their performances in the larger theatre. If I am not mistaken, it was then in charge of V. P. Belgichev,
who hit upon the idea of producing on the big stage a kind of fairy piece in which all three companies should take part.
Ostrovsky was approached with the proposition that he should write such a piece, and the music was entrusted to
Tchaikovsky. Ostrovsky chose for his theme the tale of the Snow Maiden ... He wrote very quickly, and Peter Ilych, who
had to receive the text from him, had little time, so that he had to hurry in order to keep pace with Ostrovsky. The
first messages of spring were appearing in the country, and the approach of this beautiful season always filled Peter
Ilych with delight and poetic inspiration: he loved especially the Russian spring, when nature suddenly awakes from her
long winter sleep and sometimes within a few days transforms the whole landscape ... When one considers that
Tchaikovsky's lessons at the Conservatoire amounted to twenty-seven hours a week, the rapidity with which 'Snegurochka'
was composed is absolutely astounding. The first performance took place on May 11th ... The staging of the piece was ...
gorgeous, and cost fifteen thousand roubles. In spite of a completely excellent rendering, 'Snegurochka' did not have a
great success. The paucity of scenic action did not allow any great and genuine enthusiasm to make itself felt in the
audience.'



The play with its very generous quantity of incidental music was soon stricken from the repertory. Nikolai Rubinstein
did not seem to have held the play in very high esteem, but he was most enthusiastic over the incidental music, and
subsequently conducted the music at a concert not long after the play was removed from the Moscow boards. The select
audience present on this occasion responded to the music favorably; however, the music too soon disappeared from
circulation. Today Tchaikovsky's work is virtually and unjustly forgotten, being overshadowed in fame by
Rimsky-Korsakov's opera on the same subject (1881)."



"The Snow Maiden" also features a generous amount of vocal / choral music (of the latter, some of
Tchaikovsky's finest), beautifully performed in this recording from 1951. In all, "The Snow Maiden" contains
some very attractive music - and the more one listens, the more one discovers. "Farewell to the Carnaval"
(Track 4), for example, is particularly effective. Its three contrasting sections form a kind of triptych depicting
Russian rural life (and, in fact, a distinct folk flavor permeates "The Snow Maiden"). It's not difficult to
imagine Tchaikovsky being contented as he worked on "The Snow Maiden"; imaginative strokes turn up at almost
every turn throughout this wonderful work.      



LP transfer of material issued c.1960s (Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga, originally recorded 1951); 78 rpm restoration of material
issued 1941 (RCA set DM-790).



Includes original notes, etc., including a complete synopsis of Ostrovsky's play.  

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