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Richard Chamberlain Tchaikovsky as Tchaikovsky. Andrew Faulds Davidov as Davidov. Xavier Russell Koyola as Koyola. Clive Cazes Doctor as Doctor. Ken Russell. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The compelling and bizarre story of Tchaikovsky's life and music. The texts of some vocal works were also rewritten on ideological grounds, and Tchaikovsky's liturgical music was entirely ignored until when it was included in a supplemental volume.
Although many works were published for the first time in this series, others were arbitrarily omitted: for example, the full scores of Vakula the Smith and the suite from The Nutcracker , the piano version of the Mazurka from the play Dmitry the Pretender and Vasily Shuysky , the composer's vocal-piano reduction of the music for Hamlet , the familiar version of the Piano Concerto No.
The edition was also criticised for a failure to apply uniform editorial standards to the text or music, and the absence of detailed critical reports, comprehensive descriptions of sources, or thorough evaluations of the manuscripts and alternative readings.
In the s the musical series was reprinted in the United States by Edwin F. Kalmus, with the original volumes being divided or combined for this reprint. The Soviet editorial prefaces were omitted, and the Russian title pages were replaced with English versions not always reliably. The volumes covering Tchaikovsky's letters were purged of references to homosexuality, intimate relationships or even illnesses whether his own, or those of his relatives and servants.
Profanities and abusive vocabulary were also removed, as were passages considered to be ideologically unacceptable in Soviet times. The most substantial cuts were made in Tchaikovsky's letters to his brothers from the s, particularly those concerning with his marriage to Antonina Milyukova in Edited by Pavel Lamm Plate M. Edited by Rostislav Berberov Edited by Anatoly Dmitriyev Topics Tchaikovsky.
Track Listings Disc: 1 1. Discs Orchestral Suites, 3. Discs Ballets, 4. Discs Piano Concertos, 5. Disc 20 Violin Concertos, 6. Discs Choral Works, 8. Disc Chamber Music, 9. Disc Piano Works, Top review. A great effort to set Tchaikovky's inner life on the screen.
There has been many complaints and objections against this film, but they are of no consequence, since all betray one and the same thing: they haven't understood that this is exclusively a film about music and a musician. Although there is a story, it is not told straight but rather hinted at all the way, while the main body of the film is the composer's dreams, his fancies, his hallucinations sometimes but above all his moods. This is a film of moods and an admirable attempt to set moods to music with the use of film sequences to illustrate them and put them into life and colour.
Innokenti Smoktunovsky makes a great performance although it is not quite convincing, since he is too good-looking, while Tchaikovsky in reality suffered from aging too quick and too soon - at the age of 53, when he died, he was still a young man, but he looked at least twenty years older.
He grew white very early, and this enforced aging process by nature has been much discussed and never been quite understood, but since he was a highly oversensitive and overstrung nature, he most probably just consumed himself too fast, mainly by nervous worrying and stress. His sponsor Mrs Meck is played by Antonina Shuranova more convincingly, and one of the great credits of the film is bringing her fully to life. There is a brief but splendid guest appearance by Maya Plisetskaya, one of Russia's many major ballerinas, Ivan Turgenev also appears in Paris, as does Nicolai Rubinstein in an important part, while Tchaikovsky's wife in a short and failed marriage only appears casually in the first part, that ends with his probably attempted suicide, just like Robert Schumann, with whom Tchaikovsky felt closely spiritually related - they both made music to Lord Byron's "Manfred", one of Tchaikovsky's most remarkable and greatest symphonies, bypassed here.
The main interest of the film, although beautiful and wonderfully photographed all the way, bringing all the loveliest sides of 19th century Russia to life, is the way Dimitri Tiomkin has treated Tchaikovsky's music. Tiomkin, originally Russian, was one of the very best composers of Hollywood, if not the very best one, and he really put his soul into this job of suiting Tchaikovsky's music to a film made as a tribute to Russia's greatest and probably eternally most loved composer.
His tempos are rather fast, but that's the way of film music - it's a common trait that film music always has to run too fast. Perhaps the very finest sequence is that of the "Waltz of the Flowers", the only piece in the film played in full, before the final elegy.
The one character you really miss in the film is Modest, Tchaikovsky's brother, who survived him many years and his chief collaborator in opera librettos, above all of "The Queen of Spades".
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