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Brooding, dreamy and full of sorrow – why Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 5 still moves us todayWhat is technical perfection if you don't have anything meaningful to say? It was something Pyotr Tchaikovsky mused about in 1888 when setting to work on what would become his famed Symphony No 5.
It’s got a lot of lovely and interesting music on it,” says Lou Kosma. “It has some of the old chestnuts. It has a Vermont ...
Luisi must have been right on Beethoven’s markings for the Fifth’s first two movements — the first edgy, bristling with ...
The night’s post-intermission sampling of Ravel and Stravinsky delivered their own fireworks, though of a somewhat more ...
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