11.12.2022
Mikhail Pletnev is considered by many to be the finest performer of Tchaikovsky’s music.
In the 20th century the technically perfect and stylistically impeccable playing of Sviatoslav Richter was considered one of the brightest and most precise interpretations. Among the symphony performances, Leonard Bernstein, Yevgeny Mravinsky, and Yevgeny Svetlanov interpretations stand out.
Tchaikovsky’s romantic lyrics are extremely attractive to opera and chamber music artists. Such versatile vocalists as Sergei Lemeshev, Dmitri Khvorostovsky and Galina Vishnevskaya, each with their own unique vocal manner, brilliantly performed Tchaikovsky’s delicate romances, full of incredible emotional intensity.
There are also a huge number of arrangements of Tchaikovsky’s famous themes on electronic instruments and with special effects:
- Faustas Latenas;
- Clint Mansell;
- Sergei Zhilin;
- jazz arrangements;
- rock arrangements;
- electropop processing.
In 1945, Vera Mukhina was solemnly commissioned to create a monument to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The idea of the sculpture was not implemented immediately; several times it had to be completely redone. In the end, the author didn’t live long enough for the monument to be unveiled – it was her last work. But in its final version it is a symbol of creative inspiration. Its location is also symbolic – in the courtyard of the Moscow Conservatory, where daily crowds of rushing music students and tourists who want to join the source of Russian music pass by.
