Tchaikovsky: Ballet Highlights

"Vasily Petrenko demonstrates his qualities in choice selections from Tchaikovsky's masterful ballet scores, characterising every moment while his orchestra brings their colours to vibrant life." (BBC Music)

"These bonbons from the Tchaikovsky ballets…clearly demonstrate the difference Petrenko is already making to the quality of the RLPO playing. Petrenko's watchwords are shape and purpose and clarity; there is an elegance and inner life to the playing making everything sound freshly minted. The Swan lake highlights wipe the floor with Gergiev's pale showing in the complete ballet the nobility of the horns emblazoned across the opening Scene, the swagger and sophistication of the national dances... and a delightfully folksy lilt to the contrasting Trio of the Mazurka." (Gramophone)