Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4 | Semyon Bychkov | WDR Symphony Orchestra
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- Symphony No. 4 in F minor op. 36 by Peter Tchaikovsky, played by the WDR Symphony Orchestra under the baton of its then principal conductor Semyon Bychkov. Recorded live at the Kölner Philharmonie on 19.09.2008. Historical recording from the WDR Klassik Archive.
00:00:00 I. Andante sostenuto - Moderato con anima - Moderato assai, quasi Andante - Allegro con anima
00:18:26 II. Andantino in modo di canzona
00:29:07 III. scherzo: pizzicato ostinato. Allegro
00:34:45 IV. Finale. Allegro con fuoco
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov, conductor
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Work introduction
Tchaikovsky, a Mozart fan, wrote off his own distress with the Fourth Symphony, written at a fateful turn in his life.
In Peter Tchaikovsky's eyes, Anatoly Lyadov belonged to the "wrong" party - namely, the St. Petersburg circle around Mussorgsky and Borodin, which called itself the "Russian Five" or "Mighty Group" and was committed to strengthening national traditions, but which Tchaikovsky regarded as a dilettante association. In turn, Tchaikovsky, who worked in Moscow, was resented by the "Five" as a decadent "Westerner". But Tchaikovsky revised his negative opinion of Lyadov and met him personally in 1887. Since then they visited each other more often, perhaps as kindred spirits in depressive and hypersensitive traits.
Unlike Lyadov, however, Tchaikovsky forged extensive masterpieces out of inner crises. "Obliviousness" was not his thing. The fact that Tchaikovsky feverishly hurled out three major works in just two years of extreme mental tension is nothing short of a miracle: "Eugene Onegin", the Violin Concerto and the Fourth Symphony are the harvest of 1877/78, his personal catastrophe years. In July 1877, he married the young Antonina Miljukowa - against his homosexual disposition. After a few weeks, the sham marriage ended in disaster; Tchaikovsky attempted suicide. Large parts of the Fourth had already been composed. He was able to complete the symphony in January 1878, always in close correspondence with his patron Nadeshda von Meck, who had entered his life a year earlier and to whom he dedicated the new work as his "best friend".
Nadeshda von Meck was also the addressee of the famous programme Tchaikovsky gave his Fourth after its premiere in February 1878. It led to its later popular designation as the "Fate Symphony". The composer characterised the massive fanfare of the opening bars as "Fatum": as a "fatal power that prevents our pursuit of happiness, a power that hovers over our heads like a sword of Damocles and incessantly poisons our souls." The motif, blasted out fortissimo by horns and bassoons, is initially determined entirely by the triplet rhythm with almost frozen melodic movement - much like the motif of Hunding, the "bourgeois" antagonist of free love and passion in Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung". The scale crash of the "Fatum" fanfare, supported by trombones and tuba, is reminiscent of the "contract motif" from the "Ring", i.e. that sound symbol which, like Hunding's motif, stands for the unbending nature of law and justice. A coincidence? In 1876, a year before he began composing the Fourth, Tchaikovsky attended the first Bayreuth Festival and heard the "Ring" tetralogy, albeit with little enthusiasm. Perhaps it was the daring of the Wälsungen couple to leave conventions behind through a love that broke all bonds that burned into him. Tchaikovsky himself never dared to do this in life.
With a restless waltz and a tender clarinet cantilena, according to the programme "fleeting dreams of happiness", the actual themes of the extended opening movement are established. The songlike melody of the second movement, first intoned by the oboe, then by the cellos, has something Schubertian in its oscillation between lyricism and melancholy - "sad and sweet at the same time", as the programme says. The contrast between the burlesque pizzicato of the strings in the scherzo and the folkloristic wind melodies in the trio is captivating. While folk song motifs are already reminiscent in this movement, the finale, which begins with dance-like verve, decidedly uses a Russian folk song, "Auf dem Feld steht eine Birke" ("There's a birch tree in the field"). The song sings of a wedding custom of young girls, of all things. It begins gracefully in oboes and bassoons, but soon grows into obstinate menace in the brass. An ecstatic whirl sweeps everything away. Tchaikovsky's last sentence in the explanatory note for his patroness: "Rejoice in the happiness of others. Life can become more bearable."
(Text: Kerstin Schüssler-Bach) - Hudba
My favorite simphony , and composer , tchaikovsky
Thrilling. The spirit of Tchaikovsky was there. Bravo 👏
What a great compliment! Thank you 😍
Beeindruckender kann die Klangwelt Peter Tschaikowskys wohl kaum wiedergegeben werden, was vor allem an der überragenden Stabführung Bychkovs liegt: Wunderbar!
Herzlichen Dank! 😊
The concert master also plays for the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. She is very animated in her playing style
Yes! Elise Batnes was Concertmaster at WDR Symphony Orchestra from 2004-2008, she moved back to Norway later.
I'm excited about 2nd Vn leader performance.She always shows energetic and exciting playing.
Thank you 😊
She is Barennie Moon
Loved the energy and clarity. Tchaikovsky came to life!!! Soul-lifting despite this piece constantly reminding us of fate. One of the great uplifting last movements in music
This is a sensitive and exciting performance that I really enjoyed. Thank you WDRSO!
You are welcome! 😉
Excellent performance 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Thank you! 😊
Mozart Effect. My grandmother, rest her soul, believed in this so much she played cassettes of Mozart when she babysat me as a toddler. It is probably why I got into piano at age 6 to be honest. Thanks Halidon Team!
The 4th of Tchaikovsky, my favorite composer of the classical romanticism genres. It may perceived as his life was all turbulent and chaotic. There is some of that but that did not rule hiss entire life as he had many good periods in his life. This is a good example, this symphony it he took years in composing it and at in the end he decided to to dedicate it to his Maecenas Madame Von Neck, whom wanted to know all about it and what each part meant. That placed Tchaikovsky in a serious predicament (Tchaikovsky "The Man Revealed" by John Suchet and Tchaikovsky "His Life and Works" by Rosa Newmarch). In the end is a very good performance. Especially at the end of the 1st movement Bychkov pulls the strings to the dramatic idea the author had.
Спасибо за интересный факт о том, как Петр Ильич обьяснял словами свою симфонию.
Отличная запись 4 симфонии Слушатель легко вовлекается в музыкальный мир.
I'd go home happy after attending this concert.
Thank you 😊
Hats Off for playing this impeccable performance
Thank you very much! 🤗
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I greatly laud the quality of this performance. However, I believe that the cinematography has great potential for improvement. However, I am much glad that this perfomance is here, available to someone like me from India, that too for free!! Thank you!
Immersing myself in the richness of classical compositions is like stepping into a grand cathedral of sound, where every note echoes with the whispers of centuries past. 🏰🎵
What a wonderful image! 😊
Absolutely fantastic! Bravo!
A soon as I saw this confluence of the Tchaikovsky 4th, the WDR orchestra, and to cap this "triumvurate of virtue", Seyon Bychkov at the helm, I knew that this, for me, very Russian of Tchaikovsky's symphonies, would emerge with an almost unsurpassed performance ─ and I'm not disa;ppointed. There ismuch to enjoy, from the power and richness of the opening fanfares, to the colourfull tapestries woven by the woodwinds (particularly, flute and picollo passages in the 2nd movement where the flute and piccolo ride over the top of the music, the piccolo almost dangerously so), the innovative pizzicato strings in the 3rd movement and then an absolutely blazing 4th movement, brought together by Bychkov's at times, unusual, but oh so right tempi, these qualities provided this listener with a performance to remember - and to revisit. The performance took places about 15 years ago. It may not be 4k but is excellent, and does satisfying justice to the performance. My one gripe, made several times in this recent spate of outstanding releases, is the curtailed applause at the conclusion. Perhaps that's as appears on the master tapes, so cannot be reversed. A shame, as sharing with the applause helps bring the viewing listener more closely into "being there" - unless you are missing out by listening via your phone! Better than not listening at all, I suppose, but do watch and listen on the main video screen at home (especially if there's a decent audio etup there)..But,"Thank you" for the upload.
Indisputable masterpiece and performance.
Thank you! 🤗
Masterwork Deep Power in this performance
Fantastic performance!
Thank you!
We're happy that you like it 😊
BRAVO!❤💥💫👋👋👋🌹🌹🌹
excellent brass section !!!!!
Thank you! We are glad that you like it.
Wow! Thanks for that.
Our pleasure!
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It's our pleasure! 😊
Thank you very much!
Our pleasure! Glad you like it. 😃
How much lighter the Scherzo sounds at this slightly elevated tempo. Karajan & Gergiev seem to revel in a slower tempo but this so works for me. As an ex Clarinettist the solos at this tempo punctuate their contrast to the brass….although I feel for the piccollo who has to tongue with such accuracy. Bravo to the woodwind.
Thanks! 😊
Ich weiß nicht, ob man diese Interpretation als "russisch" oder "westlich" bezeichnen kann. Für mich war die Interpretation von Karajan immer die Referenz. Aber ich weiß, dass ich von nun an die Interpretation von Bychkov zu meinen Interpretationen dieses großartigen Werks von Tschaikowsky hinzufügen werde. Mir gefällt sogar, dass Bychkov der Eröffnungsfanfare das Tempo gibt, das der Komponist ihr zugewiesen hat: ANDANTE sostenuto. Karajan ist in diesem Tempo etwas schneller, wobei ich nicht weiß, ob das angemessen ist.
0:07 "Anakin & Padme love theme" by John Williams
Ilya Musin conducting school from the first bars. Excellent! Truly Russian interpretation.
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I accidentally dropped my phone which accidentally pressed the down thumb. I corrected it but I don't know if it registered.
The only one to challenge Mravinsky
Russian musics are beautiful! ❤️👍👌👏
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Song?
0:00 / 5:17 / 6:25 / 7:41
8:47 [Thema 0] / 10:20 [Thema 1] / 11:11 [Thema 0] / 12:47 [Thema 2]
15:46 [Thema 0] / 16:11 [Thema x] / 16:47 [Coda]
00:13:45
8:15 celebration | 15:15 celebration | 15:39 DJ scratch | 15:45 intro trumpet | 16:47 dance | 17:09 dance
17:32 military trumpet | 17:40 explosion | 17:52 explosion combo | 18:02 final horns | 18:26 2nd movement
25:35 gentle dignified | 29:06 3rd movement | 40:16 trumpet |
17:38
Fetzig
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There is no cymbal crash on the last note, at least in my score.
It really works tho!
The power of music destroying Russophobia little by little...amazing that this is allowed in Naz..er in Germania...er in Germany
How does the music that was composed over 100 years ago relate to the horrors and suffering in our days? How can personal difficult experiences and thoughts of Tchaikovsky affect the Russophobia that has arisen in our days? Or do you think that after this concert people will leave the hall and think "Wow. Russians are so cute and fluffy, they have such ingenious music! Such people can be forgiven for the destruction of cities and the killing of civilians. They are not to blame. They are forced to do this"
A confused Russian troll bot, aren't you.
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Very stupid comment. Nothing of Tchaikovsky's work resembles Russian politics today, if anything they are polar opposites. Tchaikovsky - a genuine, troubled man. Russia - a disingenuous, sick bully.
Para desgracia la maravillosa música y cultura rusa no puede destruir la homofobia hacia Rusia, porque su política es inhumana, invasiva, agresiva!! Y no los últimos 20 años, 150años atrás!!Pobre pueblo ruso! 😢
Song?
This is the Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 by Tchaikovsky 😊