2/5. When judging the music of his peers
Tchaikovsky could dish out some pretty acidic comments, yet he dreaded reading reviews of his own works. Donald Macleod looks at the composer as both the critic and the criticised. Behind the Window, in the Shadow, Op 60 No 10 Joan Rodgers (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano) The Fearful Moment, Op 28 No 6 Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone), Oleg Boshniakovich (piano)
Meditation, Op 42No 1 Dmitri Sitkovetsky (violin), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
Theme and Variations, Op 19 No 6 Viktoria Postnikova (piano)
Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50 (excerpt)
Borodin Trio Repeated on Boxing Day at 12 midnight