Edward Serov - Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra
Release Date: 02 December 2016
Label: Es-Dur
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 4015372820664
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
Amongst Tchaikovsky's complete works, his three late symphonies – Nos. 4,5 & 6, written between 1876/77 and 1893 – occupy a special place. Tchaikovsky himself described them as "subjectively" inspired and, in this sense, programmatic – even if he never talked publicly about the programmes involved. The Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded these three symphonies under Edward Serov (of which he has been conductor since its foundation in 1987) and the result is impressively intense and powerful.
Tchaikovsky said his Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, first performed in Moscow in 1878, as his best work and his favourite piece. Composed during a restless period in his life, when he was teaching a great deal and married one of his students, the driving concept behind the symphony is the representation of fate, or the force that hinders people on their path towards happiness.
He wrote Symphony No. 5 Op. 64 between May and August 1888 when again, he was in a troubled phase of life and, similarly, fate is its underlying idea. The inner conflict that tormented Tchaikovsky as he was composing Symphony No. 6 is clearly discernible to the listener. After it was first performed in 1893, his brother Modest nicknamed the piece 'Sinfonie pathétique'. Tchaikovsky's own prophecy that this would be his last work was fulfilled: on November 6, 1893, nine days after the premiere, he died in St. Petersburg after a sudden illness.
Tracklisting
Fabergé-Quintet & Ulrike Payer
Philipp Schupelius; Marie Sophie Hauzel
Michael Rieber; Norbert Goerlich
Dagmar Lubking
Andre Schoch; Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
NDR Choir, Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, Philipp Ahmann
NDR Choir & Philipp Ahmann
Dorothea Schupelius; Jelizaveta Vasiljeva
Anna Gourari, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Markus Poschner
Vladimir Delman; Milan RAI Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Schippers; Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Rai; New York Philharmonic Orchestra; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra
Johanna Domotor; Meesun Hong Coleman; Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
Josef Krips; Various Orchestras
Josef Krips
Atalanta Fugiens Orchestra; Vanni Moretto
