TCHAIKOVSKY Opera and Song Transcriptions for Solo Piano / Julia Severus

Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY   Romances in transcriptions

6 Romances Op. 16 (Excerpts) (8:14)
1 No. 1. Cradle Song
2 No. 4. O Sing That Song
3 No. 5. So What, Then

4 Why? Op. 6 No. 5 2:46
5 Why? Op. 28 No. 3 2:22
6 I Should Like A Single Word 1:35

6 Romances Op. 73 (Excerpts) (3:41)
7 Again, As Before Alone
8 We Sat Together

9 Does The Day Reign? Op. 47, No. 6 3:21
10 The Fires In The Rooms Were Already Out, Op. 63, No. 5 2:38

11 Charles VOSS Characteristic Fantasy On Motifs Of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Vakula The Smith’, Op. 319 10:17

12 It Is Both Painful And Sweet, Op. 6, No. 3 2:44
13 Don Juan’s Serenade, Op. 38, No. 1 2:36
14 Do Not Leave Me, Op.27, No. 3 2:31
15 Night, Op. 73, No. 2 2:48
16 None But The Lonely Heart, Op. 6, No. 6 2:51
17 Last Night, Op. 60, No. 1 3:19
18 I Opened The Window, Op. 63, No. 2 1:44

12 Romances Op. 60 (Excerpts) (6:46)
19 Frenzied Nights
20 The Heroic Deed

21 Carl Frühling (1868 – 1937) Fantasy On Eugene Onegin 11:47

Piano – Julia Severus

Arranged By – Alexander Bernard (tracks: 8, 10, 13, 18, 19), Henryk Pachulski = Генрих Пахульский (1859 – 1921)(tracks: 15), Julia Severus (tracks: 4, 6, 7, 9, 16, 20), Julius Nagel (1837-1892) (tracks: 12), Váša Laub (tracks: 5, 14, 17)

Label: Grand Piano – GP795
Barcode: 747313979523
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: Oct 2019
Genre: Classical
Style: Romantic, Modern

Julia Severus (1968) Julia Severus began playing the piano at the age of four. She graduated from the Berlin University of Arts and from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied piano with Mikhail Voskresensky and Lev Naumov. Interested in questions of transversality of historic articulation practice, she wrote her dissertation at the Technische Universität Berlin on J.S. Bach’s Articulation Practice and Possibilities of Its Application in His Piano Works, with publications in Die Musikforschung and Concerto – Das Magazin für Alte Musik. Wishing to explore piano ensemble repertoire, she founded the Aurora Duo and Quartet, performing numerous premières and world premières, among them Rodion Shchedrin’s Hommage à Chopin in the presence of the composer. This was followed by recordings for two pianos, eight hands, of Russian Romantic Piano Transcriptions (Naxos 8.557717) and of Mare – Works for 4 Pianists by Norwegian contemporary composers. With her colleague Alina Luschtschizkaja, Julia Severus made the first recording of the complete Tchaikovsky ballet suites (Naxos 8.570418). Her solo recordings of Rachmaninov’s piano transcriptions (Naxos 8.573468), Franck’s early piano works (Naxos 8.572901), Tchaikovsky’s opera and song transcriptions (Grand Piano GP795) and Bizet’s complete solo piano works (Naxos 8.570831-32) have been highly praised. The latter was presented on Carrefour de Lodéon and Les Stars du Classique in France, was awarded Album of the Week by RBB in Germany and acclaimed by The Guardian. Julia Severus lives and works in Paris and Berlin.