Riccardo Muti, The Philadelphia Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; Scriabin: Prometheus (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 276 Mb | Total time: 64:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # CDC 7 54112 2 | Recorded: 1990
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 276 Mb | Total time: 64:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # CDC 7 54112 2 | Recorded: 1990
The Fourth Symphony was written at a particularly crucial point in Tchaikovsky’s life. 1877 was not only the year of his disastrous marriage but also the year in which he began his fifteen-year correspondence with his patroness Nadezhda von Meck. The F minor Symphony has always been a popular work with its muscular and melodic writing. Infused throughout the score is the sense of ‘fate’ which Tchaikovsky believed controlled his destiny as he described in a letter to Madame von Meck, “the fateful force which prevents the impulse to happiness from achieving its goal … which hangs above your head like the sword of Damocles.”