Jazz Suites / Overtures

SACD Surround Sound requires Multi-Channel SACD Player & compatible Surround Sound System.
This SACD can also be played on CD players.

"The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine achieves an authentic sound--lithe rather than lush--for this music and plays with excellent ensemble. There are numerous solo turns for principal players, all taken with appropriate character. Brilliant Classics' SACD surround-sound is very good. Recorded in a lively ambience (making the surround channels a bit more noticeable than on many orchestral SACDs), the disc's only sonic flaw of note is its "splashy" quality at brassier tutti moments."
(ClassicsToday 9/9 for performance and sound)

"In these jazz-related items, Theodor Kuchar draws idiomatic performances from the members of the Ukraine orchestra, and the pleasing results owe a lot also to the excellent recorded sound. Likewise the short but appealing Novorossisk Chimes, a patriotic piece written in 1960 using the melody 'Song of Eternal Glory', is a satisfying experience for the listener hearing it for the first time"
(MusicWeb Aug 2005)

Both Suites date from the 1930's and enjoy a huge popularity. Especially the second Waltz from the first Suite has become widely known through the arrangement by violinist and "Stehgeiger" André Rieu.

The Overture on Russian and Kirghiz Folk Themes was written to celebrate the centenary of the incorporation of Kirghizia into Russia. On the same patriotic note is a short hymn to the port on the Black Sea, the Novorossisk chimes.

The Ukrainian Orchestra under Theodore Kuchar gives excellent, idiomatic performances. New recordings.