Tchaikovsky: Complete Songs, Vol. 3

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (Composer), Ljubo Orfenova (Performer), Ljuba Kazarnovskaya (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Ljubo Orfenova, Ljuba Kazarnovskaya
• Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
• Audio CD (May 15, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Naxos
• ASIN: B00005AYEM
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #334,887 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Accomplished, August 16, 2004

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Sahan Arzruni (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tchaikovsky: Complete Songs, Vol. 3 (Audio CD)

With few exceptions, Tchaikovsky's romances are not his best material. Nevertheless, an integral recording of his more than one-hundred songs is a welcome development. Soprano Ljuba Kazarnovskaya renders them quite nicely-though on occasion her vocal production is less than ideal, and a number of her high notes are strained. Pianist Ljuba Orfenova's performance is idiomatic-although regrettably, the recording technique displaces the piano sound to the background, making her an "accompanist" in the old-fashioned sense.

The production values on this recording are less than desirable. The liner notes are skimpy and uninformative. Poor editing is all too prevalent. A track titled "The terrible minute" on the front cover, becomes "The fearful minute" on the back; "Fall asleep, my sad friend," is elsewhere rendered "Sleep, poor friend." The sequence of the repertoire is also questionable: I would have preferred to have all the songs under a single opus number together. On this disc, however, everything is jumbled up, for no logical reason.