Tchaikovsky & Korngold: String Sextets
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PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY / ERICH KORGOLD
Tchaikovsky & Korngold: String Sextets
Nash Ensemble / David Lloyd-Jones
[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 15 March 2024
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The teenage Korngold possessed a compositional fluency and maturity which belied his youth; in contrast, Tchaikovsky feared-wholly unjustifiably-his own creative powers to be on the wane when writing Souvenir de Florence. The Nash Ensemble brings passion and conviction to both.
The two string sextets paired here are separated by little more than twenty-five years and share a common tonal centre (D), yet they hail from opposite ends of their composers' careers. Korngold's sextet received its first performance a few weeks before the composer turned twenty; Tchaikovsky's 'Souvenir de Florence', in contrast, was a late work that was first performed in its revised version less than a year before the Russian's death. Both works grapple successfully with the challenge of writing for pairs of violins, violas and cellos-'six independent yet homogenous voices', as Tchaikovsky described to his brother, Modest. 'This', he stated, 'is unimaginably difficult.'
Tracks:
Tchaikovsky:
String Sextet in D minor 'Souvenir de Florence' Op 70 [34'36]
Korngold:
String Sextet in D major Op 10 [35'30]
