Tchaïkovski : Symphonie n°5

The Orchestre National de France, conducted by Emmanuel Krivine, performs the Symphony no.5 by Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovsky (1840-1893). Excerpt from the concert recorded live on 31 May 2018 at the Radio France Auditorium (Paris). Early 1888, a tour of Europe led Tchaikovsky to Hamburg where he met the director of the Philharmonic Society, the octogenarian Théodore Avé-Lallemant. A great admirer of the composer, the latter suggested nonetheless that he leave his native Russia, source of the tawdry aspects of his music! Less than a year later, with no hard feelings, Tchaikovsky dedicated his newly-composed Symphony no.5 to Avé-Lallemant. Though more than eleven years separating the fourth and fifth symphonies, they both have in common a similar organisation of the musical material centered on a recurring motif, symbolising Destiny. In the Symphony no.4, the "fatum" (a term used by Tchaikovsky in a letter to his patron Nadejda von Meck) can be heard in three of the four movements. The leitmotiv of the Fifth is even more prominent, a true "idée fixe" in the Berliozian sense of the word, appearing in all four movements, affording them a persistent tragic force. On a manuscript sketch, Tchaikovsky wrote about his symphony's opening: "Total submission before Fate - or, what is the same thing - the inscrutable designs of Providence." More concerts on : https://www.francemusique.com/concerts Click here to suscribe to our YouTube Channel : http://bit.ly/2oeEr3e Follow us on: Facebook - https://bit.ly/2G380fK Twitter - http://bit.ly/2okZSfP Instagram - http://bit.ly/2nDA547