Tchaikovsky
The Voyevoda; The Tempest; Francesca da Rimini; Cherevichki – Overture and Polonaise
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Alpesh Chauhan
Chandos CHSA 5300 (CD/SACD) 78:12 mins
Alpesh Chauhan evidently has a tremendousqualities combine to especially powerful effect in , a startlingly original work unaccountably rejected by the composer after its first performance in 1891. After a hair-raisingly fast opening section, Chauhan vividly encompasses a wide gamut of emotions within a relatively short time, moving seamlessly from eerie passages for bass clarinet to a brief yet impassioned love theme before shattering gunshot sounds bring the work to a brutal close.