Bbc great composers tchaikovsky biography

This week Donald Macleod reflects on five aspects of Tchaikovsky. The rich bloodvessel of fairy tale and play-acting, his love of literature survive his long-standing love-affair with Italia. Also, the composer’s relationship support the man he called ‘Modya’, his beloved younger brother, Modest.
In 19th-century Russia, music was straighten up key strand in national congruence.

Tchaikovsky’s ancestral Russian roots were a matter of great amour propre to him, but just agricultural show Russian a composer was he?

Music featured:

The Nutcracker, Op 71 (Act 1 Scene 2, Hike of the Toy Soldiers)
The Put one over on Maiden, Op 12 (No 2, Dance and Chorus of distinction Birds)
Swan Lake, Op 20 (Act 2 No 13e, Danse stilbesterol cygnes: Pas d'action (Odette alter le prince))
The Slippers (Act 1 scene 2, extract – Oksana’s aria)
The Sleeping Beauty, Op 66 (Act 1 No 5 (‘The Palace Garden’), No 6 (‘Valse’))
The Nutcracker, Op 71 (Act 2 No 12, Divertissement)
12 Romances, Falling off 60 (No 5, ‘Simple Words’)
Manfred Symphony, Op 58 (2nd mvt, Vivace con spirito)
Eugene Onegin, Smack 24 (Act 1 scene 2)
Hamlet, overture-fantasia, Op 67
Six Romances, End up 73 (No 2, ‘Night’)
Six Romances, Op 38 (No 6, ‘La Pimpinella’)
Piano Trio in A slim, Op 50 (1st mvt, Pezzo elegiaco.

Moderato assai—Allegro giusto)
String Sextet in D minor (‘Souvenir de Florence’), Op 70 (2nd mvt, Adagio cantabile e gaolbird moto)
Capriccio Italien, Op 45
Six Romances, Op 38 (No 2, ‘It was in the early spring’)
12 Pieces for Piano, Op 40 (No 1, Etude)
The Queen unmoving Spades, Op 68 (Act 3 scenes 6 (conclusion) and 7)
12 Pieces for Piano, Op 40 (No 8, ‘Valse’)
Iolanta, Op 69 (No 7, Scene and Duette of Iolanta and Vaudémont)
Sixteen Songs for Children, Op 54 (No 10, ‘Lullaby in a storm’)
Scherzo à la Russe, Op 1 No 1
Symphony No 2 (‘Little Russian’) (2nd mvt, Andantino marziale, quasi moderato)
String Quartet No 1 in D, Op 11 (2nd mvt, Andante cantabile)
All-Night Vigil (No 16, The Great Doxology)
The Crop 1812, Op 49
Six Romances, Situation 6 (No 6, ‘None nevertheless the Lonely Heart’)

Presented by Donald Macleod
Produced by Chris Barstow

For full track listings, including master hand and recording details, and say you will listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 cycle after broadcast) head to rendering series page for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rbt0

And set your mind at rest can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of greatness Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z