Entrée Essentials: Tchaikovsky
Fabio Luisi conducts Tchaikovsky’s intensely personal masterpiece
The Concertgebouw Orchestra plays Tchaikovsky’s heart-rending Fifth Symphony under the direction of Fabio Luisi, especially for audiences in their mid-thirties and under.
The Fifth presents a splendid sampling of Tchaikovsky’s versatility: he alternates his sense of melody, his gift for ballet music, and his love of folk melodies.
The Concertgebouw Orchestra plays Tchaikovsky’s heart-rending Fifth Symphony under the direction of Fabio Luisi, especially for audiences in their mid-thirties and under.
The Fifth presents a splendid sampling of Tchaikovsky’s versatility: he alternates his sense of melody, his gift for ballet music, and his love of folk melodies.
Concert programme
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5
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About this concert
The Essentials Series introduces you to the masterpieces every music lover should know, performed by the Concertgebouw Orchestra and given a lively introduction by the incomparable Thomas Vanderveken.
In his Fifth Symphony, Pyotr Tchaikovsky bared his Russian soul. The work begins with a plaintive theme that continuously reappears in the music. But this symphony is more than doom and gloom: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth spans a wide range of emotions. And this symphony offers a splendid sampling of the composer’s versatility: he alternates his sense of melody, his gift for ballet music, and his love of folk melodies.