Tchaikovsky / Shkoda - Les Saisons - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

All the other works of art, literature and music titled InchSeasonsInch treat the seasons as determined by the weather and human activity (planting and harvest, heat and cold) characteristic of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Not so with Tchaikovsky. He divides the year into it's twelve months. Each piece of the piano cycle illustrates a month of the year. This is most likely due to the demands of it's St Petersburg Nikolay Bernard, who in 1875 asked Tchaikovsky to write suitable piano pieces for the twelve 1876 issues of his periodical Nouvelliste as musical inserts for domestic performance, which Tchaikovsky was very happy to do, not least because of the generous remuneration he could expect for them. Each piece is prefaced by a literary motto drawn from contemporary Russian poetry, no doubt added retrospectively by the . Poets quoted include Alexander Pushkin, Alexey Tolstoy, Nikolay Nekrasov, Vasily Zhukovsky and Afanasy Fet. On this new , Tchaikovsky's Seasons are performed by Andrej Hoteev.

'The Best Years of Our Lives', the third studio album by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, was released in 1975. Produced by Beatles/Pink Floyd engineer Alan Parsons and most notable for the inclusion of the million selling UK Number 1 single and worldwide hit 'Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)' and 'Mr. Raffles (Man, It Was Mean)'.This Definitive Edition includes bonus tracks of Singles, B-sides and an early rough mix of 'Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)' as well as the complete historic concert at London's Hammersmith Odeon from 1975.This is packaged in a clamshell box with 3CDs and a 16-page booklet.

After getting off to a flying start with Igor Stravinsky, OehmsClassics is delighted to be continuing it's partnership with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dmitry Kitayenko - this time with the works of Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky and Alexander Glazunov. The Stravinsky recording was awarded with Pizzicato Supersonic immediately after , and no doubt this album will be met with similar critical acclaim. Dimitri Kitaenko is one of the great maestros of our time. For decades now he has regularly conducted prestigious orchestras across Europe, America and Asia. Born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), Dimitri Kitaenko studied at the famous Glinka School of Music and the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory before leaving to study with Leo Ginzburg in Moscow as well as Hans Swarowsky and Karl Österreicher in Vienna. In 1969 he won a prize at the first International Herbert von Karajan Conducting Competition and at the age of twenty-nine he was appointed principal conductor of the Stanislavsky Theatre in Moscow. In recognition of his life's work and outstanding recordings, including the complete symphonic works of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Scriabin and Tchaikovsky, Dimitri Kitaenko received the InchLifetime Achievement AwardInch at the ICMA (International Classical Music Awards) in March 2015.