OehmsClassics has compiled some popular Tchaikovsky works from earlier recordings with the Gürzenich Orchestra and Dmitrij Kitajenko.
The Pizzicato review says: “With accents, rubato, finely controlled crescendi and an arsenal of colors, life and meaning come into the music, whose flow always remains natural, always vibrates naturally. In this 3-D music-making, a lot is happening in the wonderfully transparent orchestral sound. Kitajenko performs with stupendous sensitivity and a well-balanced discretion of expression that ultimately savors, optimizes and embellishes the expressive to the fullest. Most younger conductors no longer know such secret tricks, because they believe that they can only achieve expression with full power and tempo…