Archive: Tchaikovsky: Pathétique

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Instrumentation

  • Linus Roth, violin
  • Finnegan Downie Dear, conductor

Programmes

Exulting to the heavens, troubled to the grave: few symphonies feature such exorbitant eruptions of emotion and abrupt mood swings as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Sixth, the «Pathétique». Planned as the cornerstone of his oeuvre, it’s a kind of requiem, a hard-fought acceptance and ultimately resigned celebration of his leave-taking from life. Nine days after the world premiere, the composer was dead at the age of just 53. But first, under the baton of the award-winning young English composer Finnegan Downie Dear, two great masters of opera bring solace to the concert hall: Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Benjamin Britten, the latter with a Violin Concerto in which Linus Roth shines as soloist.

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold

«Theme and Variations» for Orchestra op. 42

Movements

  • Theme: Allegretto (like an Irish folk tune)

  • 1st Variation: Pocchissimo più animato

  • 2nd Variation: Più mosso

  • 3rd Variation: L'istesso tempo, scherzando

  • 4th Variation: Meno, cantabile e grazioso

  • 5th Variation: Allegro molto

  • 6th Variation: Molto meno mosso, lento

  • 7th Variation: Marcia - Meno maestoso - Encora più meno

Duration

9 Min.

Creation

1953
Benjamin Britten

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in d minor op. 15

Movements

  • Moderato con moto -

  • Vivace -

  • Passacaglia. Andante lento

Duration

31 Min.

Creation

1939, rev. 1954/65
Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski

Symphony No. 6 in b minor op. 74 «Pathétique»

Movements

  • Adagio - Allegro non troppo

  • Allegro con grazia

  • Allegro molto vivace

  • Finale. Adagio lamentoso

Duration

45 Min.

Creation

1893