 | This montage from our Podcast Vault revisits a post from February 22, 2019. It can be found in our archives at https://archive.org/details/pcast304 |
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This week’s visit to the Podcast Valut takes us back nearly
two years, with a montage of Tchaikovsky’s music for piano solo, featuring his
two piano sonatas from 1865 and 1878.
Our performer, Viktoria Postnikova, was a
prizewinner at the 1965 Chopin International Competition in Warsaw, and she
captured second prize at the 1966 Leeds Competition. In 1969 she married famed
conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and the following year won third prize at the
prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
Postnikova has recorded the complete piano music of
Tchaikovsky, Janáček, and Glinka for Erato records. She brings to every single
piece a virtually ideal blend of affection, respect and intelligence, not to
speak of virtuoso command. Not only does this give the textures the best
possible chance to 'come off the page', she also has the instinct for
inflexions which get us to the heart of Tchaikovsky's individual moods.
As our bonus track, from the same Erato collection by Viktoria
Postnikova is The Potpourri on themes from Tchaikovsky's first opera The
Voyevoda (TH 128), arranged by the composer himself in 1868, but published
under a pseudonym.
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