Ukrainian Pianist Oleg Poliansky gives an amazingly fiery performance in Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, accompanied by the Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Volker Hartung in top form. In similar fashion presented on this album is the composer’s fabulous Serenade for String Orchestra, recorded at Hamburg’s „Laeishalle,“ in a performance full of life and highly spirited. Moreover, you are listening to his Nocturne for Cello and Strings played by great Russian cellist Sergej Belesov.