Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini - Russian State Symphony Orchestra/Svetlanov (1993)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, Op. 32
State Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation
EVGENY SVETLANOV, cond.
Recording: Large Hall, Moscow Radio, 17 July 1993

[@leestamm3187]

One of my favorite recordings of this frenetic masterwork.

[@hectorberlioz9569]

Svetlanov is the only conductor who really brings out the hysteria this music has. In other words the best "Francesca" ever on record!

[@TheVaughan5]

I agree though the Gergiev/LPO recording is also excellent. I was listening to Bernstein/NYPO but it's way too slow in parts.

[@levpetrenkov]

I agree with you! Even Mravinsky concedes to him.

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

You need to hear Markevitch, but not with the Philharmonia....the DGG recording with the Lamoureux Orchestra. Totally insane.

[@paullewis2413]

The more I listen to this work the more I'm convinced it's possibly P.I. Tchaikovsky's finest composition after the 6th symphony. I also agree that this recording is, at least from others I've heard, the finest on record.

[@pietstamitz1]

the other finest work is the Manfred-symphony, (and maybe his absolute finest) but only when conducted by Svetlanov (his studio-recording from 1967).

[@alecvillavilla9978]

Paul Lewis, don't you like Mravinsky's?

[@bomcabedal]

I'd put it well in front of the Pathetique, to be honest. As I would Manfred.

[@davidevans3227]

i was going to suggest, have you heard Manfred too..
awesome..
i rather like the voyevoda overture from the period of the sixth symphony
this is still comparatively early in his composing i think?

[@bomcabedal]

@@davidevans3227Sure. But Manfred and Francesca are also the (only?) works Tchaikovsky was consistently proud of.

[@lewisedmundscomposer]

I think this is by far the best interpretation and performance of the piece by any conductor and orchestra. The piece needs hysteria, especially at the end, and he achieves this with the break-neck speed and the omission of the nasty sudden tempo change that most conductors add in for the chord stabs in the final bars. Truly magical.

[@usertcl6893]

Для меня это лучший вариант интерпретации шедевра Чайковского (кстати, Пётр Ильич получил за "Франческу" все имеющиеся тогда в Европе и России музыкальные премии, включая царскую премию имени Глинки); рядом можно поставить только концертную запись того же Светланова 1968 года из произведений Чайковского ( 1-й и 3-й концерты в ансамбле с Эмилем и Еленой Гилельс, Увертюра до минор, очень редко исполняемаяи и поныне ). Большое человеческое спасибо, что поделились с этим исполнительским шедевром...

[@user-op9uh5dh2o]

Лучший вариант у Мравинского.

[@davidcoxall3270]

What a thrilling account of what is perhaps Tchaikovsky's finest piece of programme music. Some of this music was used in the Hitchcock picture "Torn Curtain" with chilling effect especially at the point in the music 20.20 where the lovers are discovered, that passage can make your blood run cold.

[@user-ru8vy1uz7c]

Bravo bravo bravo genial grandiose music

[@zinam5795]

WOW! Bravo....

[@WilfriedBerk]

8:17 clarinet solo (Vladimir Sokolov ) 12:00

[@zinam5795]

После Мравинского ,конечно иначе--тяжеловеснее... темпы!.... НО ЭТА Музыка покорить все равно

[@user-no4ve5qi6v]

Просто феноменально!

[@zinam5795]

Адский вихрь ВПЕЧАТЛЯЕТ!!!

[@markhaxthausen1476]

Very good, and beautifully recorded but I find Mravinsky (1972 and 1973) has a bit more intensity.

[@markhaxthausen1476]

Sorry, I meant 1983.

[@organist2012]

The best

[@samuelariasramos6082]

Auténtica energía rusa, en eso Svetlanov nunca decepciona. Pero el registro sonoro es muy mejorable, cuerdas y viento madera suenan demasiado fuerte, en cambio en los pasajes, fundamentales en esta obra, en los que el viento metal es absoluto protagonista, se difumina mucho el sonido. El vórtice infernal tiene fuerza, pero el tempo es tan rápido que la compleja orquestación apenas se intuye dentro de la masa sonora. Es mucho mejor la versión, más atenta al detalle, con tempos no tan apresurados y con mejor registro sonoro, de Bernstein con la Filarmónica de New York. Pero lo que de verdad hubiera sido increíble sería poder escuchar está interesantísima obra diseccionada en toda su compleja arquitectura por el escalpelo mágico de Celibidache. Lastima que sólo parece existir una única grabación, pero muy antigua y de un sonido pésimo.

[@zinam5795]

That Thaykovsky 's a SPECIAL PIECE.... not Romeo& Julia"... much more difficult for rendition

[@mikemestas9835]

you might say so-----is any team the best of all time? the best angelic background---13 : 35

[@jesusandresperezanselmi]

Increíble toque esta obra cuando tenia 16 años y es de mis favoritos pero esta versión es la mejor de todos los tiempos que locuras gracias maestro ....

[@danieldavid9038]

22:54

[@KosmasLapatas]

Nowhere near Stokowski s account but still very good

[@user-oq5zz8br3g]

РОССИИИИИИЯ!!!

[@yp3424]

👎🍅. Insopportabile.

[@nikysch]

per che?

[@OuwenH101]

22:17