Sergei Koussevitzky, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5; Francesca da Rimini (2022)
WEB FLAC | Tracks ~ 333 Mb | Total time: 2 h 14 min | Cover
Classical | Label: Archipel | # ARPCD 0750 | Recorded: 1945, 1946, 1949
WEB FLAC | Tracks ~ 333 Mb | Total time: 2 h 14 min | Cover
Classical | Label: Archipel | # ARPCD 0750 | Recorded: 1945, 1946, 1949
Koussevitzky’s early biographer Lourie reports that in his salad days Koussevitzky–like his mentor Arthur Nikisch–“based his performances of Tchaikovsky on the emotional side of the music… (but in later years) after undergoing a great and serious evolution… [Koussevitzky] adopted a correct and entirely new method of treating this composer”. While that new method may have emphasized the music’s symphonic structure and Beethovenian dynamism, Koussevitzky never slighted the seething emotions that permeate this composer’s scores. Ever the showman, Koussevitzky deftly portrays the composer’s shifting moods, from the ink-black darkness and devastation of the Pathetique to the incredible resilience of the human spirit captured in the closing moments of the Fourth Symphony, immediately following the last and most disturbing appearance of the fate motif.