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Tchaikovsky 'Danse Baroque' - Fistoulari conducts

1,367 views · Published 19 January 2018 · 3:56 · Indexed 30 October 2026

Channel: adam28xx · 2018 · Music

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Tchaikovsky's 'Orchestral Suites' don't get played as much as they should, either in the concert hall or on the radio. The Suite No. 2 in C, for example, has been heard at the Proms in London only twice: in 1899, when Sir Henry Wood gave the work its UK Premiere, and again in 1930 when he conducted it for the second and last time at the Proms. Nevertheless, all four of Tchaikovsky's 'Orchestral Suites' contain highly delightful music and here is one example. It's the final number, a "wild dance in the style of Dargomyzhsky," from his Suite No. 2 and comes from a compilation 'Mood Music' LP entitled 'Dancing Strings' issued in 1963 by Reader's Digest. It gets a splendid performance here from the Royal Philharmonic under the Russian-born conductor Anatole Fistoulari. What a shame they didn't ask him to record the whole work!

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