Tschaikowsky - Sinfonie Nr. 5 - Schicksals-Sinfonie | Cristian Măcelaru | WDR Sinfonieorchester

Peter Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64, the "Fate Symphony," performed by the WDR Symphony Orchestra under the baton of its principal conductor Cristian Măcelaru. Recorded live at the Kölner Philharmonie on February 4, 2022. Peter Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 in E minor op. 64 00:00:00 I. Andante - Allegro con Anima 00:15:07 II. Andante Cantabile con alcuna licenza 00:29:08 III. Valse. Allegro Moderato 00:34:49 IV. Finale. Andante Maestroso WDR Symphony Orchestra Cristian Măcelaru, conductor In his series "Short and Classic", chief conductor Cristian Măcelaru talks about Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony:    • Peter Tschaikowsky: Sinfonie Nr. 5 | "Kurz...   ► For more on the symphony orchestra, concerts and current livestreams, visit https://sinfonieorchester.wdr.de ► The WDR Symphony Orchestra on Facebook   / wdrsinfonieorchester   ► Further concerts and introductions to works from the world of classical music, symphonic crossover, choral singing and concerts for children can also be found in the ARD Mediathek: https://www.ardmediathek.de/klassik Peter Tchaikovsky finally established himself in 1888: On a four-month tour, he introduces himself for the first time as a conductor in Western Europe with his works and reaps predominantly positive reactions. For a freelance composer, he leads a relatively luxurious life and is also supported by a wealthy patroness, Nadezhda von Meck. But the highly sensitive artist suffers from self-doubt and depression. As a man who secretly loves men, he runs the risk of being discovered in the repressive Russian tsardom and possibly deported to a Siberian penal camp. Now, at the age of 48, Tchaikovsky is experiencing what today would be called a midlife crisis. The project of the Fifth Symphony is becoming a litmus test for him, as a letter to Nadezhda von Meck reveals: "I am often overcome by doubts, and I ask myself: Is it not time to stop? Have I not overexerted my imagination? Has the spring perhaps already dried up?" The premiere success of the Fifth Symphony, which Tchaikovsky conducted himself in St. Petersburg in November 1888, did not confirm these There is something repulsive in it, patchwork, insincerity and artifice," he disparages his symphony to Nadezhda von Meck. Perhaps he did not quite trust the modernity of his own It is possible that he did not really trust the modernity of his own composition: the ambivalences that can be found in it, the ambiguity that leads to music questioning itself here. For the funeral march that is intoned at the beginning overshadows everything that follows: the nervously restless course of the first movement, the emotional exuberance of the Andante cantabile and the exuberance of the waltz. In the finale, when the theme of the Funeral March becomes a Triumphal March, the euphoric ending seems somehow false. Tchaikovsky, his social position always at risk, seems to have no confidence in a happy ending. Text: Eckhard Weber