Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, 6 "Pathetique"
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Free Music Review: Another perspective.
Hit: 3 Stars
I cannot wholeheartedly recommend this version of the Pathetique. While it certainly has virtuosic orchestral playing, and is arresting in its erratic shifts in tempo, I felt some of the 1st movement's melodic beauty was lost. I did enjoy the 5/8. This orchestra is great (try Sanderling's Rachmaninov 2 on DG Originals), but the conductor should have been a little less intense, and a little more expansive with the wonderful melody here.I do not denigrate my fellow Tchaikovksy music lovers for giving highest honors to these performances. I understand the emotional charge this performance must have given them. But it sounds like another case of finding some "new thing" in works they have heard for many years. I contend first-time buyers would do better with a slightly more conventional appoach (browse the various reviews here at Amazon).
Free Music Review: The essential Tchaikovsky: Mravinsky is the greatest
Hit: 5 Stars
If you only have one Tchaikovsky CD, make this it. One need only listen to the deep, impassioned sound of the horns at the beginning of the Fourth Symphony to see that these performances are in a different league from Western performances. But Mravinsky an dhte Leningrad Philharmonic reserve their greatest playing for the Pathetique symphony. Playing of mind-blowing intensity and passion!Free Music Review: Tchaikovsky's essence captured to the nth degree.
Hit: 5 Stars
Mravinsky and the Leningrad Philharmonic have produced stunning and electrifying music. I am familiar with these symphonies (having heard them in concert and on other recordings). I had second thoughts about my familiarity, however, after hearing them played Mravinsky's way. Each movement of each symphony is sculpted in a dramatic and quintessentially Slavic fashion revealing a true Slavic sensibility. The Russian musical landscape comes alive in startling colors and textures--a tribute to the Romantic milieu in which these works were conceived. There are passages so deftly articulated that I felt I was, at some points, listening to the music for the first time. The rapid tempi are more than amazing; I doubt that any orchestra has ever played with such fire and at such crisp, break-neck speeds. By contrast, the darker and more tragic moments (second movement of IV; second movement of V; and the Adagios of VI) are alluring and even torturous in their melancholy. This is Russian sentiment and Russian romanticism as it should be heard. Mravinsky is a wizard, a musical magician with demonic incantations at every turn. These recordings are treasures.