Nicola Meecham - Piano Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

This release presents a fabulous recital of piano music by Tchaikovsky which includes the two rarely performed or recorded Piano Sonatas. The large-scale, majestic Grande Sonate in G major Op. 37, Tchaikovsky�s most significant work for solo piano, and the earlier Sonata in C sharp minor of 1865. The disc includes four of Tchaikovsky�s shorter solo pieces, the Nocturne and Feuillet d�album, Opus 19 and the Humoresque Op. 10 No. 2, all of which strengthened his reputation as a distinctive composer of solo piano pieces. The delightful Doumka in C minor paints a picture akin to a rustic Russian scene and is one of the finest of all of Tchaikovsky�s shorter solo piano works.