Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5

Andris Poga conducts the Orchestre de Paris in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, Op. 64, with Roland Daugareil as solo violinist. Directed by Sébastien Glas and recorded in the Salle Pleyel, Paris in 2013. Tchaikovsky composed the work between May and August of 1888 and dedicated it to the German music teacher Theodor Avé-Lallemant. It premiered in St Petersburg at the Mariinsky Theatre on November 1 of that year under the baton of the composer himself. Unlike his Third and Fourth, this symphony does not have a program that attempts to render a musical narrative. The recurring main theme of the symphony is used as a device to unify the four movements. The theme has a funeral character in the opening movement, but transforms into a march, dominating the closing movement.