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The Tchaikovsky Symphony orchestra

Conductor: Alexander Sladkovsky

The Tchaikovsky Symphony orchestra (the TSO) was founded in 1930 as one of the first symphony orchestras in the Soviet Union and as the first orchestra of the home radio. More than once had the collective confirmed its right to bear the title of one of the best orchestras in the world; this right had been conquered in the course of the Orchestra’s history, which implies thorough work at microphones, intensive concert activity in the best halls of Russia, Europe, Japan, the USA. The high reputation of the Orchestra in the world is the result of joint creative efforts of the collective and many remarkable Russian conductors, such as A. Orlov, N. Golovanov, A. Gauk, G. Rozhdestvensky and, undoubtedly, the present Artistic leader and Chief conductor Vladimir Fedoseev, who took this position thirty five years ago. N. Myaskovsky, S. Prokofiev, A. Khachaturyan, G. Sviridov, B. Tchaikovsky, D. Shostakovich entrusted the TSO with the premiere rendering of their compositions; particularly, D. Shostakovich spoke of the TSO as of “the outstanding ensemble of the outstanding musicians”.

In the annals of the TSO one can find glorious names of such conductors as L. Stokovsky and G. Abendrot, L. Mazel and K. Masur, E. Mravinsky and C. Zecchi; soloists as S. Richter, D. Oistrakh, A. Nezhdanova, S. Lemeshev, I. Arkhipova, L. Pavarotti, N. Ghiaurov, M. Freni. The regular participants of the Orchestra’s concerts are the best soloists of our time – violinists V. Tretiakov and G. Kremer, viola player Y. Bashmet, pianists O. Maizenberg, E. Leonskaya, violoncellist A. Knyazev. Such performers as E. Kissin, M. Vengerov, V. Repin became the important discoveries of the TSO and Vladimir Fedoseev.

The list of countries visited by the Tchaikovsky Symphony orchestra nearly coincides with the world map. Travelling with concerts all over Russia is one of the main aspects of the TSO’s activity. The glorious collective had more than once been listened to in Smolensk and Vologda, Cherepovets and Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk and Sarov, Perm, Veliky Novgorod, Tumen, Ekaterinburg and other Russian towns and cities. In 1993 the Orchestra attained the great name of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for deep penetration into the composer’s concept.