Tchaikovsky: Cherevichki
Soloists
Chorus and Orchestra del Teatro Lirico Di Gagliari
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
This was an opera I was looking forward to. I’ve heard from several people that it is a good piece and Tchaikovsky himself said that it was ‘musically well-nigh my best opera’. I have to say, however, that I found it rather disappointing. It is not a bad piece of course, but I felt that it never really made an impact - much of it rather passed me by. It was only towards the end that I really started to enjoy the piece. Mainly because of the extended dance music which was first rate Tchaikovsky and very much in the same mode as the great ballets. There was also an attractive duet for female voices. But by this time it was too late for me. I am a great Tchaikovsky enthusiast and so it was doubly disappointing that this work failed, at least for me, to hit the spot.
But of course the whole point of this project is to explore lots of different works and there are bound to be some which don’t make such a strong impression as others.
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