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Outstanding composer of XX century Boris Tchaikovsky (no relation to Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky) studied at Moscow Conservatory with Dmitry Shostakovich, Nikolai Miaskovsky, Vissarion Shebalin and Lev Oborin. His music was performed and/or recorded by such prominent orchestras as London Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Staatskapelle Dresden, NDR Symphony, Odense Symphony, Lamoureux Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic, Leningrad Chamber Orchestra of Early and Modern Music, USSR TV & Radio Large Symphony Orchestra, Russian State Symphonic Capella, and some others, with conductors Alexander Gauk, Samuil Samosud, Arvid Janssons, Yury Silantiev, Kirill Kondrashin, Willy Steiner, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Rudolf Barshai, Edward Serov, Vassily Sinaisky, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Mariss Janssons, Timur Mynbaev, Juozas Domarkas, Vladimir Verbitsky, Valery Gergiev, Valery Polyansky, Alexander Vedernikov, Alexander Polianichko, and by soloists Mstislav Rostropovich, Galina Vishnevskaya, Viktor Pikaizen, Daniil Shafran, Simon Preston, Galina Pisarenko, Natalia Shakhovskaya, Victoria Yagling, Lev Evgrafov, Valentin Feigin, Ivan Monighetti, Alexander Rudin, Igor Oistrakh, Irina Bochkova, Grigory Feigin, Alexandre Brussilovsky, Oleg Yanchenko, Igor Zhukov, Arthur Moreira Lima, Alexander Fiseisky, Nikolai Demidenko, Yuri Serov, Daniil Kopylov, Alexander Trostiansky, Yana Ivanilova, Olga Solovieva, Anton Prischepa, Emil Rovner, and others. Please, continue with: |
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"...I consider him to be a genius [...]. I do think that one day people will come to know that two great Russian composers bore the same name..." [Mstislav Rostropovich] "The music by Boris Tchaikovsky is so important, so gripping and profoundly beautiful that he should be played just as often as his more famous namesake..." [Svenska Dagbladet] |
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Updated: January 1,
2010
© 2010, The Boris Tchaikovsky Society
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This
site exists since the 1998, and works in accordance with the decision
and under the aegis of The Boris Tchaikovsky Society. The group of people (now
they are in the Council of the Society) was established themselves in
1994 and are working to promote and support the music of Boris
Tchaikovsky since that time. The public non-profit organization "The
Boris Tchaikovsky Society" was founded in 2002 by composer's widow, his
pupils, and by musicologists who studied the music of Boris
Tchaikovsky. The Society was officially registered in 2003. Among the
Honored Members of the Society there are outstanding musicians as
Rudolf Barshai, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Viktor Pikaizen, Karen
Khachaturian, Edward Serov. The foreign members include the
musicologists, musicians and music enthusiasts from UK, USA,
Switzerland, France, Germany, Brasil, Netherlands and Belgium. The
activity of the Society is supported by Mstislav Rostropovich, Galina
Vishnevskaya, Valentin Berlinsky, Andrei Eshpai, Roman Ledenyov, Timur
Mynbaev, Andrei Golovin, Valery Kikta, Alexander Rudin. Society
assisted in issues of about 20 CDs (including new recordings,
some of them - world premiere recordings) on such labels as Naxos,
Chandos Records, Hyperion Records,
Relief, Albany Records, Northern
Flowers, Melodiya, Boheme
Music; assisted in the preparation of: Chamber Music Festival
devoted to the music of Boris Tchaikovsky (the first in the world!) in
Ghent (Belgium, 2004), performance of Cello Concerto in Paris (France,
2004), performance of Six Etudes in Odense (Denmark, 2005),
performances of chamber works at the "SovietFest" in Manchester (UK,
2006) and some other. In 2007 The Society launched the scores
series "Boris Tchaikovsky. Selected Works". By
requests we sent many recordings, scores and parts to dozen countries. "Thanks to the lively efforts of the Moscow-based Boris Tchaikovsky Society, we are building up a rounded picture of this important figure in Soviet music ..." [David Nice, BBC Music Magazine] "Ample credit and gratitude shall be given to the Boris Tchaikovsky Society, whose tireless efforts in bringing his music to the fore of recognition and appreciation give the composer his honor he richly deserves..." [David A. Hollingsworth, Washington, DC USA] "The Boris Tchaikovsky Society's efforts are paying dividends when you realise the boom in the number of Tchaikovsky CDs being issued..." [Rob Barnett, Editor, Classical Music on the Web] |
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