You can guess that one of my favourite orchestral composers is Tchaikovsky. He is one of the top composers when it comes to finding the relevant orchestral colours to shade a musical passage. For musical structure, he defers to the great composers like Mozart and Beethoven. This concert on 28 June 2008 depicts his talent to adopt other composers' idiom as his own. In the opening piece, Bakels and the MPO played the Introduction and Polonaise from Eugene Onegin with the proper Polish swagger and colour.
In his homage to Mozart, Tchaikovsky's Fourth Orchestral Suite is labelled "Mozartiana". The MPO and Bakels were on top form for this intimate setting of 4 Mozart melodies into the four movements that make up this gorgeous suite. Playing with orchestral as well as soloistic refinement, the MPO performed this suite brilliantly.
After the interval, Bakels announced the movements of the Sleeping Beauty as the orchestra performed various selections from the acts of this great ballet. As in the first half, the MPO and Bakels were on top form in this colourful and wonderful music from Tchaikovsky. Bravo maestro Bakels and the MPO!
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