Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky

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Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (“Little Russian”)
Rococo Variations in A Major
for Violoncello and Orchestra
Andante Cantabile

Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne
Leonard Elschenbroich, violoncello
Dmitrij Kitajenko, conductor

The magic of genuine Russian folk music“ – Tchaikovsky’s Second Symphony bears the epithet “Little Russian” not due to its slight scale (although it is indeed the shortest of his six symphonies), but because many of its themes originate in “Little Russia”. In the territory of the Tsar, this was the designation for a region known abroad as “Ruthenia”: the present-day Ukraine. The recording is complemented by the famous Rococo Variations with the young cellist Leonard Elschenbroich.
OehmsClassics is proud to be able to continue this cycle – the recordings have received high praise and are already being considered reference recordings by some media representatives.