Gramophone Magazine
May 2025
Editor's Choice

NDR Radiophilharmonie, Stanislav Kochanovsky

Tcherepnin, N: Prelude to "La Princesse lointaine", Op. 4
Rimsky Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34

Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 3 in G major, Op.55

A new page in the history of the NDR Radiophilharmonie opened in 2024 with the arrival of a sought-after chief conductor, Stanislav Kochanovsky. For harmonia mundi, he has chosen to explore a repertoire that he knows inside out, the music of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia. Here is a chance to hear an expert interpretation of the famous Capriccio espagnol alongside works by Tchaikovsky and Tcherepnin, perhaps less well-known but utterly thrilling!

"Stanislav Kochanovsky is a seriously good conductor...This is his debut disc. Playing to his strengths, it’s all Russian repertoire but, apart from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnol, ebulliently dispatched with flamboyant solos from leader Sarah Christian, the works are a little off the beaten track." - Gramophone Magazine, May 2025