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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet "Fantasy Overture"
Soloist: Vladimir Jurowski (Conductor)
Orchestra: Russian national Orchestra
Label: PentaTone Classics
Cat. No.: PTC 5186 330
“Tchaikovsky composed his Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, at the instigation of his mentor Balakirev, in 1869, revised it in 1870 and again in 1880. It is this final version that is usually heard in the concert hall and on countless recordings. Jurowski, however, has chosen to record the 1869 version in which Tchaikovsky’s first thoughts are so different that, in many respects, it almost becomes a new work. Of course, familiar elements of the 1880 version such as the “love music” and that depicting the feud between the Montagues and Capulets are still present, but are treated in a strikingly different manner. With Jurowski and the RNO on white-hot form this blistering performance certainly makes a compelling case for the earlier version.” SA-CD.net.
- General Management:
Nicholas Mathias
London
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Vladimir Jurowski Conductor
Principal Conductor, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Principal Artist, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Conductor in Residence, Bolshoi Theatre
Music Director, Glyndebourne Opera
“Vladimir Jurowski, more medium than conductor, produces ever more faultlessly gorgeous, languid sounds…" Robert Thicknesse, The Times
"The ever-challenging Vladimir Jurowski launched his second season as Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a programme that asked as many questions as it answered and had us leaving the hall feeling like we'd never heard a note of this music before.(...) For sure the lighter, sharper, inflections and downplaying of the work's grubbier primitivism caught us all on the back foot - but when did you last re-evaluate the Rite and emerge totally exhilarated from the experience?" Edward Seckerson, The Independent
Vladimir Jurowski was born in Moscow, but in 1990 moved with his family to Germany, where he completed his musical studies at the High Schools of Music in Dresden and in Berlin. In 1995 he made a highly successful debut at the Wexford Festival conducting Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night, which launched his international career. Since then he has been a guest at some of the world’s leading opera houses such as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra Bastille de Paris, Welsh National Opera, Dresden Semperoper, Komische Oper Berlin and Metropolitan Opera, New York.
In January 2001 Vladimir Jurowski took up the position as Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera and in May 2006 was also appointed Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He also holds the title “Principal Artist” of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and from 2005 to 2009 served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Russian National Orchestra.
Vladimir Jurowski has made highly successful debuts with a number of world's leading orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Rotterdam and Oslo Philharmonic orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Dresden Staatskapelle, and in the US with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Highlights of the 2009/10 season and beyond include his debuts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra, and return visits to the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Dresden Staatskapelle and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
His operatic appearances have included Jenufa, The Queen of Spades and Hansel und Gretel at the Metropolitan Opera, Parsifal and Wozzeck at the Welsh National Opera, War and Peace at the Opera National de Paris, Eugene Onegin at La Scala Milan, as well as Die Zauberflöte, La Cenerentola, Otello, Macbeth, Falstaff, Tristan und Isolde, and Peter Eötvös’ Love and Other Demons at Glyndebourne Opera. Future engagements include new productions of Don Giovanniand Die Meistersingerand a revival of The Rakes’ Progressat Glyndebourne, and Iolantaat the Dresden Semperoper.
Season 2009/10
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