Les Dissonances & David Grimal

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

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Video Director: Frédéric Delesques - Artist: Les Dissonances & David Grimal - Producer: Heliox Films - Conductor: David Grimal - Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Cité de la Musique, Paris | 45 min | 2016 | TV-G

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

Les Dissonances is a collective of artists founded by violinist David Grimal in 2004. The conductorless ensemble consists of musicians from the most prestigious European orchestras, international soloists, and young talents. In this performance, Les Dissonances perform Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36. The composer wrote the symphony between 1877 and 1878, and dedicated it to Nadezhda von Meck – an exceptionally wealthy widow and great admirer of Tchaikovsky’s music, whom the composer described as ‘my best friend’. Tchaikovsky explained in his letters that the symphony is characterization of the nature of fate. The work opens with a powerful motif in the horns and bassoons representing fate. The second movement expresses melancholy, whereas the third presents ‘fleeting images that pass through the imagination when one has begun to drink a little wine’. Although the ‘fate’ motif reappears toward the end of the final movement, the movement has a festive character. This performance was recorded at La Cité de la musique in Paris in 2016.

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