In Memoriam: Yanina Iossifovna Moshinskaya-Tchaikovskaya

On the first day of Orthodox Easter, on 5 May 2013 the widow of Boris Tchaikovsky passed away after a long illness, on her 94th year.

During the decades Yanina Iossifovna Moshinskaya-Tchaikovskaya [25.04.1920 - 5.05.2013] was a spouse and a close friend for her husband, outstanding composer Boris Tchaikovsky.
She was amazingly talented, modest and friendly person and she lived though not an easy but a long life, always giving herself to people. In her youth, during a Second World War, in 1942 she served at the hospital for the soldiers. Later she graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (as a musicologist), worked as an editor on Russian Radio.

During her last years (after the sudden death of Boris Tchaikovsky) she was the center of attraction for the admirers of Boris Tchaikovsky music, for the young musicians. The visits to her flat and meetings with her are unforgettable for everyone.

The outstanding successor of her great husband, Yanina Iossifovna Moshinskaya-Tchaikovskaya will be always with us.

[More details read in Russian: 

http://hramvtolmachah.ru/index.php/news/179-ioanna-chaykovskaya]

Review on Violin Concerto/Sonata CD on MusicWeb

The review on Violin Concerto/Sonata CD with Victor Pikaizen, Boris Tchaikovsky and Kirill Kondrashin (Moscow PO) appeared: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2012/Mar12/Tchaikovsky_Boris_PH11047.htm

New CDs from Profil Medien and Divox

The year 2012 started with two new CDs with the music of Boris Tchaikovsky.

I. First of all, it is CD with Violin Concerto and Violin Sonata from Profil Medien, Guenter Haenssler Edition. The recordings (licensed by Melodiya) are the same as on the old LP, but carefully digitized and remastered. This is the third CD from Profil Medien with Boris Tchaikovsky's music - first was "Theme and Eight Variations" premiere performance recording (Staatskapella Dresden with great Kirill Kondrashin), then Second Symphony (also premiere performance recording, also with Kirill Kondrashin) coupled with piano pieces with composer at piano.

And now - long waited Sonata for Violin and Piano (first appearance of Sonata on the CD), performed by Victor Pikaizen and Boris Tchaikovsky, and first studio recording of Violin Concerto with it's first performers - Victor Pikaizen, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kirill Kondrashin.

II. Soon the new recording of Cello Sonata will come from the Swiss label Divox, which is specialized on the chamber music.
The recording was made by excellent musicians Emil Rovner (cello) and Alla Ivanzhina (piano). Also the 24 Preludes for solo cello by Weinberg are on the CD.

As each CD from Divox, the new CD is a special production, a result of love to music and real enthusiasm.

There are already few versions of Cello Sonata in Boris Tchaikovsky discography, two of them - with composers at piano (with cellists Mstislav Rostropovich and Alla Vassilieva).
The new CD (Divox is also famous with its approach to sound) definitely need to be in the collection of every Boris Tchaikovsky music admirers. New generation of musicians, who took the enthusiasm from their teachers (Emil Rovner's teacher was Ivan Monighetti, who earlier studied with great Mstislav Rostropovich), entered their energy and mastery to this recording, and result is increased by contemporary technical approach to sound recording.

In Memoriam: Vadim Nikolaevich IVANOV

Another huge loss in the world of classical music ... At the morning on 5th of November 2011 an outstanding sound engineer and producer Vadim Ivanov died after  a long illness...

Vadim IVANOV

He was one of the best professionals in the field of classical recordings in USSR, and later in Russia. His numerous recordings appeared on such labels as Naxos, Toccata Classics, Hyperion, Chandos, Chant du Monde, Harmonia Mundi, Fuga Libera, Relief, Melodiya, Russian Season, Albany Records, and other (here is the list of some of his recordings). He worked with almost all Russian leading musicians. 


The Boris Tchaikovsky Society collaborated with Vadim Ivanov since 2003. 
[Here is the list of CDs, recorded by The Boris Tchaikovsky Society with Vadim Ivanov as a sound producer:  CDA67413 (Boris Tchaikovsky: Six Etudes for Strings and Organ),  TROY749 (Boris Tchaikovsky: piano music), 8.557727 (Boris Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto, Clarinet Concerto, The Signs of the Zodiac), TOCC0046 (Boris Tchaikovsky: Song cycles), TOCC0082 (Anatoly Lyadov: piano pieces), TOCC0076 (Herman Galynin: piano pieces), 8.557804 (Sergey Taneyev: Violin Sonata, piano pieces).]


It was a real pleasure to work with Vadim Nikolayevich. The musicians, who started to work with Vadim Ivanov, became his admirers.  He was a person with absolutely positive energy, kind and warm, he always had gave a good impulses for everyone who worked with him or even just contacted with him.


During latest years he taught at Russian Academy of Music, and his pupils are leading sound engineers and producers in new generation. 


I believe the recording made by Vadim Ivanov always will be attractive and will be in demand; his experience will be alive in the hands and ears of his students, and his voice, his image, his kindness, his cordiality will always be alive in the minds and hearts of everyone who knew this outstanding man...


I.P.

October 2011 - Five concerts with major works

In October 2011 five  concerts with the major works by Boris Tchaikovsky will take place:

1 October, Kislovodsk (Russia) - Clarinet Concerto

1 October, Moscow (Russia) - Piano Trio

2 October, Vilnius (Lithuania) - Piano Quintet
23 October, Scottsdale (U.S.A.) - The Wind of Siberia
30 October, St.Petersburg (Russia) - Piano Quintet

More details - on our Web-site.

Boris Tchaikovsky passed away 15 years ago...

On February 7, 1996, the great composer Boris Tchaikovsky passed away.
15 years is almost nothing comparing with the eternity. But it is quite a large time for the human. During such tume quite possible to understand this or that true.
In the past seven years almost all composer's work have been released on the CDs. We can definitely say that music of Boris Tchaikovsky became more and more neccessary for people. We see the great interest to this bright and deep music.
If you look into the list of concerts taken place in 2009-2010 and the schedule of the concert for 2011 - you can notice that the music of Boris Tchaikovsky was performed and will be performed in different parts of the World: in Russia, U.K., U.S.A., Ireland, Germany, Brasil, Lithuania, Italy, Belgium, France, Hong Kong...

We are sure that time of this eternal music came, and Boris Tchaikovsky already took his place in the musical history among his predessesors: Dmitry Shostakovich, Nikolay Miaskovsky, Vissarion Shebalin, Anatoly Lyadov, Sergey Taneyev, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

And I completey agree with Mstislav Rostropovich, who wrote about Boris Tchaikovsky: "...I consider him to be a genius, whose contribution to the cello repertoire has yet to be sufficiently appreciated. Boris's modest nature would prevent him from ever showing off or advertising himself, and I do not think that sharing a surname with the illustrious Pyotr has helped him either. Nevertheless, I do think that one day people will come to know that two great Russian composers bore the same name…".

I.P.

New scores published

Two new scores came out from the press:

In the series "Boris Tchaikovsky. Selected Works":
ISMN 979-0-706350-10-3 
Boris Tchaikovsky. Swineherd (1954)  * The Galoshed of Fortune (1958)
Suites for orchestra from music to the fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen (full scores)

In the series "Laureates of the Boris Tchaikovsky Premium":

ISMN 979-0-706350-11-0

Dmitry Koltsov [1984-2010]. Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello (full score)

The all list of the published score is here (http://www.boris-tchaikovsky.com/scores_e.htm)