Coming
home...........
This is the
"motto" of the Gürzenich Orchester Köln,when Maestro Dmitrij
Kitajenko,our honorary conductor since 2009,with his significant white quiff
and his elegance appears at his conductor's podium.
We all feel musically
at home,when he works with us.
Today he started to
continue the CD-production of the integrale of Tschaikowski's orchestral works
with"his"orchestra-how he uses to name us-with Capriccio Italien
op.45 and Snegorutschka (Snow Maiden) op.12.
Maestro Kitajenko
always creates an excitement even in the studio, inspiring, encouraging and
characterized by his enormous wisdom and musical knowledge and last, but not
least, his helpful great sense of humour.
In about seconds
after his initial upbeat, the entire ensemble plays, acts like at the stage in
a public performance, completely forgetting that it takes place in a prosaic
recording studio.
When we finished
recording the Capriccio Italien, tonight, Maestro Kitajenko smiled and told us,
that exactely 130 years ago at December the 7th this opus was first performed in Russia, but, he
joked:"not at all as excellent as we did it today!"
in an absolute
professional, highly concentrated but somehow relaxed atmosphere Kitajenko
continued to record the "dance of the Buffoons"from
"Snegorutschka" (Snow Maiden), an old russian fairy tale's character -
the russian author Aleksandr Ostrovsky made a theatre play, where Snow Maiden
leeds over from frosty winter time into spring.
Tschaikowski composed
the incidental music to this play.
Three more days we
will have the great pleasure to complete our Tschaikowski-project, after the
productions of all symphonies by Shostakovich and Prokoffiew, which have been
awarded, among others, with the "Echo Klassik Prize".
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