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Paavo Järvi and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra continue their exploration of Tchaikovsky with the neglected Second Symphony and the iconic Fourth ... Even the less obvious material, such as the second ...

It was something Pyotr Tchaikovsky mused about in 1888 when setting to work on what would become his famed Symphony No 5. Flush from the success of its predecessor, the superlative Symphony No 4 ...

Part of the reason must be Tchaikovsky’s own views on the symphony. His attitude to it swung violently from exhausted approval immediately after finishing it (“my best symphonic composition ...

REVIEW BY Richard Amey. ‘Symphonies & Serenades’ concert by Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra at Assembly Hall, Sunday 9 ...