チャイコフスキー: 管弦楽作品集

イギリス期待の若手指揮者、
アルペシュ・チャウハン!

BBCスコティッシュ交響楽団の副指揮者であるアルペシュ・チャウハン指揮、チャイコフスキーの管弦楽作品集!バーミンガムで生まれたアルペシュ・チャウハンは、スタニスラフ・スクロヴァチェフスキに師事し、ファンホ・メナ、ワシリー・ペトレンコのマスター・クラスに参加。2014年から2016年にはバーミンガム市交響楽団の副指揮者としてアンドリス・ネルソンス、エドワード・カードナーから研鑽を積みました。その後2021/22年シーズンよりデュッセルドルフ交響楽団の首席客演指揮者、BBCスコティッシュ交響楽団副指揮者に就任。その他にもバーミンガム・オペラ・カンパニーの音楽監督を務めています。

これまでにロンドン・フィルハーモニー管弦楽団、フランス国立管弦楽団、フィルハーモニア管弦楽団など国際的に高い評価を受けているオーケストラとも頻繁に共演を繰り返しており、イギリス期待の若手指揮者の一人で、今回の録音がChandosレーベル初録音となります。
東京エムプラス

Conductor Alpesh Chauhan, from the same Indo-East African background as British prime minister Rishi Sunak, won various newcomer awards and has been touted as the next big thing on the podium. This release with the BBC Scottish Symphony, where he is the principal guest conductor, marks his recording debut, and curiosity about his talents was perhaps what propelled the album to best-seller charts in the late spring of 2023. Bringing well-known Tchaikovsky and some that are not so well known, Chauhan shows lots of promise. The best thing is that the BBC Scottish Symphony is clockwork perfect in complex scores; the big Allegro of Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32, has all the punch it should have, and the Andante non tanto finale of the less-familiar tone poem The Tempest, Op. 18, hangs gracefully in the air. Still less common are the two excerpts from the opera Cherevichki, which did not have its British premiere until 1993. Tchaikovsky wrote it after traveling to Bayreuth to hear Wagners music, and the Polonaise is as close to Wagner as anything he ever composed. The program ends with a bang with Francesca da Rimini and opens with the tone poem The Voyevoda; throughout, Chauhans tempos are on the slow side, and here and elsewhere, the music sometimes loses energy. However, just as often, details of Tchaikovskys marvelous orchestration are revealed. With fine sound from the Glasgow City Halls, this album stirs the appetite for future releases from Chauhan in other mainstream repertory. ~ James Manheim