This symphony is so true to the human condition, the way it grows from nothing, suffers, laughs, fights, frolics, only to die just as we do... instead of ending with triumph as a symphony usually does. Truly a masterpiece of the highest order, one of Tchaikovsky's greatest works, if not the greatest entirely.
Everything that Beethoven did not get right in his large works, but his chamber music is unmatched. Tchaikovky had the advantage of all that preceded him.
i think tchaik. greatest for true, since i was a child i had my mum tape.... i am also pn rock jazz and the rest, i was lucky to love and to begin with classical. my tape was by carlo maria giulini for deutsche grammophone, very emotive, karajan is powerful ok, and majestic extherior. but giulini shows the soul and nerves. there is also something faustian inside, against destiny over life. tchaikowsky had is way to rise though his own interior deadly pain
Fact: the symphony was premiered 9 days before his death. He allegedly died of cholera, but many assume that since he was gay (meaning a likely target for authorities), it may have also been arsenic poisoning.
My little niece passed away after only 10 days of life. I had not been able to listen to music for a while. This has been the first piece of music that I have naturally felt like choosing. It was a balm. Goodbye, my little Elena. Your uncle E.
This is how you film an orchestra! I’m so tired of the modern day zoom out and to get it. The right way is it get close on the people playing details!!! A true masterclass in showing the power of a well conducted orchestra through film. Got dang. I love this video and I love this piece.
Surely one of the greatest symphonies symphonies of all time conducted by one of the greatest conductors of time. The whole symphony is an emotional rollercoaster from start to finish, especially the first movement. The beginning of that movement begins bleak and dark, but then transforms into one of the most achingly beautiful melodies Tchaikovsky ever created. Then, out of the blue, the orchestra fires out, just as a reminder that darkness and suffering is coming. The movement closes with that beautiful melody again, but this time in B major.
Moi j'appelle ça le "thème d'amour " de cette symphonie, probablement l'un des passages les plus émouvants que Tchaikovsky a composés, il aurait tout aussi bien pu servir pour "Roméo et Juliette ", sans compter que Karajan a réalisé l'une des meilleures versions de cette symphonie !
@@stephane5562Je suis plutôt d'accord! Ça me fait penser, tout à l'heure j'écoutais la symphonie 5 de Tchaikovsky et je me suis dit (mouvement 2) : c'est la mélodie de l'espoir. Qu'en dites-vous !
That melody ended up being used as the basis for the song “The Story of a Starry Night” some 50 years later It’s one of my favorite melodies of all time
My one and only visit to the Musikverein was to hear this performed by the Moscow State Orchestra, but the beauty, the gold and grandeur of the hall, enhanced by the lighting as it was recorded for television was something more magnificent than the music. Now I listen and appreciate it more each time and reach for ther memories of that magical wonderful evening.
I think I finally have found the version I have on vinyl. I could never find it. This sounds incredibly similar. I gathered said vinyl from my grandfather. Glad to be here as it always was the best play of the piece I have ever heard,
The secret is to never let one register cage the harmony and let it always partly unresolved, that at no point the continuation can be guessed correctly but always invite the listener to guess it.
I remember hearing this on the radio when I was about 12 years old and said: "Dad, what is this piece? I think it's the most beautiful music I've ever heard." He then told me the name of the piece.
5:47 музыка говорит: "Нет я не плачу! Нет я не плачу.. Ведь я ЛЮБЛЮ ТЕБЯ О ЖИЗНЬ МОЯ!!"- Чайковский перестал сокрушаться.. - ОН СТАЛ МАСТЕРОМ ЦЕЛЬНО.. /его музыка всегда говорит/
Why - please, for the soul of every musician still alive, _buy their recordings_ if you love them, instead of just listening to everything for free on RUclips / streaming services! That way you're also guaranteed to go ad-free, win-win.
@@leftaroundabout I agree, actually, I have a big collection of cds, but I can't buy all existing music, and when I listen here a masterpiece like this one, I enter in a trance state, but with the ads this is hard to achieve.
I have been everywhere all my life listening to various versions of this symphony. But no matter how great they are, I always come back to this one. It is the benchmark. No matter what anyone may think of Karajan, when it comes to this symphony (and those of Bruckner and Mahler) he just had it nailed in every way. It is EPIC and exactly how it should be played (with the BPO at the height of its powers). Strange to say, I always judge a performance of this work by how profound the two sforzandi are near the very end of the last movement (46:6 & 15). I only have tears and gratitude.
I was deep in the the music in the third movement when an ad popped up and nocked me out of my state and and ruined the entire experience it was so hard to get back in to that state of enjoyment after that. the worlds interest in money has ruined the beauty of art and raising of men's hearts and sadly is the route of most evil The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial -Leonard Bernstein
Yes, music does evoke such happiness and at the same time a deep deep sorrowful and melancholy state. I offer my deepest and sincerest condolences to you.
I have my father to thank for giving me an appreciation and love for this piece as well as Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings. Thanks Dad. May you rest in peace.
@ Probably, the word I meant was rather "sacred" (not holy). Thank you for pointing this out. This music is so meaningfu to me that I dared to use the word holy. In this light, there is no difference between sacred and profane.
@@danieltarraf6953 ...Tastes are different!...I'm listening concert in Paris 2o14.,after Kissin's concert Rachmaninoff 2...France Radio Orchestra,conducted by Myung Chung(phenomenal conductor)...Excellent performance...But,I love the most Karajan😀
@@danieltarraf6953 Ey, ¿por qué borraste el comentario?, he estado buscando una interpretación con la que me topé hace unos años acá en RUclips, pero la quitaron por derechos de autor, es sin duda superior a esta. ¿Cuál es la que más te gusta?
I am pretty sure this masterpiece symphony was used in the Bernard Rose 1997 masterpiece movie Anna Karenina. With the lovely Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean. could not be more fitting for this movie and from the same era.
Can someone answer a curious question? I love Western classical music but am a novice in music theory. To my ears, at 13:54 there is a change in tempo from faster to slower which leads to the recapitulation of the main melody at 15:01. Is it a real tempo change or just the composer using longer notes in the same tempo which gives the tempo change feeling? I can see no change in Karajan's gestures at 13:54. He continues to conduct aggressively.
Tchaikovsky uses over the bar tied notes in the melody line and accompaniment to slow the pace dramatically. Both the longer note durations & over the bar extensions slow the music without any need for the conductor to change tempo!!!
Attraverso questa musica si può intravedere la tragica storia e l'altrettanto tragico oggi di quel popolo... E altri popoli di cui storia si è intrecciata e scontrata con la sua storia. L'Ucraina, la Polonia, la Georgia, l'Armenia...
(I don't have enough English to translate myself, so I'm writing from the translation) The episode between 14-15 minutes is so perfect that the words are insufficient
This is a superb recording of a very great conducting performance by Karajan - but - it is being used in this film. It is the same with all Karajan's professional films he made of concerts. The orchestra are all miming (not difficult to see, look at the woodwind, you do not see them taking a breath, because they are not playing) The camera is upon the conductor almost all the time, which is what he wanted...
I agree the optics favor ol' Herby a bit too much, I don't agree that the musicians are faking it. String section synchronization would be the hardest thing to fake I would think :)
@@ClemCadiddlehopper60 during a long interview with Simon Rattle, he made it quite clear that the BPO were all playing over a sound track... Karajan did this with all his films. He was livid that they put out the final product using the sounds made by players who had in fact died. Karajan would not allow the musicians faces' to be seen, only his face, perpetually. At times even the bald players were made to wear wigs for the filming. Note also the photographs of people in the seats of the hall... no real people.
I know how you feel. Depending on what browser you use try an adblocker like this.. ruclips.net/user/AdblockPlusOfficial there are several free variations and it stops those F*#$*+! ads from destroying your enjoyment.
@conclude You can block ads on mobile, dumbass. Use a web browser instead of the YT app. For example, Microsoft Edge (iOS and Android) comes with AdBlock.
Friendly reminder that this was *not* Tchaikovsky's "suicide note," as sometimes people allege. After the symphony's premiere, during Tchaikovsky's last week alive, he and his brother Modest had a conversation about death: “There is plenty of time before we need reckon with this horror; it will not come to snatch us off just yet!” he remarked to Modest, who entered it in his diary that very evening. Then he added, “I feel I shall live a long time.” (From Richard Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music)
I don’t think the music is a suicide note, but it does have suicidal themes. I would not make a judgment on whether or not someone with the struggles Tchaikovsky was facing was considering suicide based on a conversation with a loved one. It is very common for a depressed person to blatantly lie about their mental well-being to not trouble others.
Es una de las obras mas hermosas de Tchaikovsky, que nos va entregando los distintos momentos momentos de la vida, la dirección Herbert von Karajan, estupenda, se respeta la solemnidad de toque de gong, pero lo que no me gusto de la grabación, es que no se respeto al final el silencio, que es parte de la sinfonía y quien edito la grabación la corta antes que la sinfonía efectivamente haya finalizado
This symphony is so true to the human condition, the way it grows from nothing, suffers, laughs, fights, frolics, only to die just as we do... instead of ending with triumph as a symphony usually does. Truly a masterpiece of the highest order, one of Tchaikovsky's greatest works, if not the greatest entirely.
Everything that Beethoven did not get right in his large works, but his chamber music is unmatched. Tchaikovky had the advantage of all that preceded him.
i think tchaik. greatest for true, since i was a child i had my mum tape.... i am also pn rock jazz and the rest, i was lucky to love and to begin with classical. my tape was by carlo maria giulini for deutsche grammophone, very emotive, karajan is powerful ok, and majestic extherior. but giulini shows the soul and nerves. there is also something faustian inside, against destiny over life. tchaikowsky had is way to rise though his own interior deadly pain
@@XanAxDdu Never heard about Giulini.
Fact: the symphony was premiered 9 days before his death. He allegedly died of cholera, but many assume that since he was gay (meaning a likely target for authorities), it may have also been arsenic poisoning.
yes
My little niece passed away after only 10 days of life. I had not been able to listen to music for a while. This has been the first piece of music that I have naturally felt like choosing. It was a balm.
Goodbye, my little Elena. Your uncle E.
Thoughts and prayers out to you and your entire family.
Feel sorry for your misfortune
Thoughts and prayers🙏
Que Dios tenga en su gloria a esta niña, que ahora es el ángel que vela por vuestra familia.
❤@@peterleung8372
I. Adagio - Allegro non troppo: 0:53
II. Allegro con grazia: 19:23
III: Allegro molto vivace: 28:19
IV: Finale. Adagio lamentoso - Andante: 37:02
спасибо
😊
Muito obrigado!
dankeschön!
Died on this date in 1893. RIP, Maestro. Left an immortal legacy in your music
This is how you film an orchestra! I’m so tired of the modern day zoom out and to get it. The right way is it get close on the people playing details!!! A true masterclass in showing the power of a well conducted orchestra through film. Got dang. I love this video and I love this piece.
Same. Happy to see I'm not the only one
14:08 is the saddest, most triumphant climax i've ever heard...
Surely one of the greatest symphonies symphonies of all time conducted by one of the greatest conductors of time. The whole symphony is an emotional rollercoaster from start to finish, especially the first movement. The beginning of that movement begins bleak and dark, but then transforms into one of the most achingly beautiful melodies Tchaikovsky ever created. Then, out of the blue, the orchestra fires out, just as a reminder that darkness and suffering is coming. The movement closes with that beautiful melody again, but this time in B major.
5:27 is without doubt, one of the best melodies tchaikovsky ever wrote.
Without any doubt.
@@Dylonely_9274 bro they played this during the recent destiny 2 season. This is really good
Moi j'appelle ça le "thème d'amour " de cette symphonie, probablement l'un des passages les plus émouvants que Tchaikovsky a composés, il aurait tout aussi bien pu servir pour "Roméo et Juliette ", sans compter que Karajan a réalisé l'une des meilleures versions de cette symphonie !
@@stephane5562Je suis plutôt d'accord! Ça me fait penser, tout à l'heure j'écoutais la symphonie 5 de Tchaikovsky et je me suis dit (mouvement 2) : c'est la mélodie de l'espoir. Qu'en dites-vous !
That melody ended up being used as the basis for the song “The Story of a Starry Night” some 50 years later
It’s one of my favorite melodies of all time
Karajan flames the orchestra. he gives power to everybody
This music is compassion. A true blessing for us humans.
A consolation.
Most beautiful composer and most beautiful conductor together!!!
My one and only visit to the Musikverein was to hear this performed by the Moscow State Orchestra, but the beauty, the gold and grandeur of the hall, enhanced by the lighting as it was recorded for television was something more magnificent than the music. Now I listen and appreciate it more each time and reach for ther memories of that magical wonderful evening.
The Pathetique , Sympfony , six , is .............very , very , very beautiful ❤
I think I finally have found the version I have on vinyl. I could never find it. This sounds incredibly similar. I gathered said vinyl from my grandfather. Glad to be here as it always was the best play of the piece I have ever heard,
Right up there with Beethoven's 9th and Brahms's 4th as one of the greatest of all symphonies.
Tchaikovsky had a wonderful way of building melodies from a whisper to a magnificent crescendo.
The secret is to never let one register cage the harmony and let it always partly unresolved, that at no point the continuation can be guessed correctly but always invite the listener to guess it.
@francisco peixoto yes i agree 100%
I remember hearing this on the radio when I was about 12 years old and said: "Dad, what is this piece? I think it's the most beautiful music I've ever heard." He then told me the name of the piece.
СПАСИБО большое за чудесную музыку низкий поклон бравоооооо ❤️ з
Absolutely beautiful and astounding. One of the most intense performances of any piece of music I've ever heard.
Esta Sinfonía!!!!!! Nace, Crese, Se Desarolla Energicamente y Muere con gran tristeza...Hermosa Obra....
The last movement depicts death. The bass notes of double basses indicate the slowing down of heartbeat, leading to stopping.
But Tchaikovsky does it with such grace
Thanks , Danke , Spasiba ❤
Karajan will never be forgotten.
5:47 музыка говорит:
"Нет я не плачу! Нет я не плачу.. Ведь я ЛЮБЛЮ ТЕБЯ О ЖИЗНЬ МОЯ!!"- Чайковский перестал сокрушаться.. - ОН СТАЛ МАСТЕРОМ ЦЕЛЬНО..
/его музыка всегда говорит/
The quintessential Romantic era composition. And would you listen to that clarinet at the end of the first movement!
44:55 to the end... absolutely stunning and indescribably heartbreaking 💔
Excellent cinematography. And great tempo
Those plates seemed electrified. Beautiful.
💜💜💜ZWEI GRÖSSE !!!VON GOTT BEGABTE ARMENIER :HERBERT VON KARAJAN und CHAYKOVSKI!!!HERZLICHEN DANK DEUTSCHLAND!!!
I fucking jumped at 10:26.
1악장 0:51
5:25 8:05 / 10:25 / 14:56
2악장 19:23
3악장 28:19
4악장 37:02
39:20 42:41
. Adagio - Allegro non troppo: 0:53
II. Allegro con grazia: 19:23
III: Allegro molto vivace: 28:19
IV: Finale. Adagio lamentoso - Andante: 37:02
Thank you.
Tchaikovsky's one true masterpiece - you can see how much this meant to Karajan - seemed to be tears in his eyes around 40:46
Wow...this symphony by Tchaikovsky gets me...every damn time. I'm a mess here!
13:54 this part shows Tchaikovsky's pain and sorrow
I think all of them is stressfull.
Always got a tear or 2 at this section when i was playing it, especially at a much slower tempo than this recording
That's why the humanity deserves to exist :).
Incredible !
One of the ten greatest symphonies of all time
one of? what are the other nine?
@@closetsclosetsclosetsclose9250 IMHO:
1. Beethoven 9
2. Beethoven 3
3. Mozart 41
4. Mahler 2
5. Mahler 9
6. Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
7. Tchaikovsky 6
8. Dvorak 9
9. Schubert 9
10. Brahms 4
Honorable mention: Mozart 40, Beethoven 5-7, Brahms 1-3, Mahler 3, 5, 6, Shostakovich 5
@@EE-gg3xf I'm a little bummed that Tchaikovsky 4 didn't at least make your HM list. =(
@@EE-gg3xf And maybe Rachmaninov 2nd
@@GrumpyGrobbyGamer I love T4 so much as well 😩
One of the absolute best conductions of this, the GOAT symphony...
Please, for Tchaikovsky's blessed soul, remove the ads!!!
Horrible that RUclips would interrupt this (or any) magnificent music with stupid ads!
Why - please, for the soul of every musician still alive, _buy their recordings_ if you love them, instead of just listening to everything for free on RUclips / streaming services! That way you're also guaranteed to go ad-free, win-win.
@@leftaroundabout I understand your sentiment, and some of us want to hear something before actually purchasing it.
@@leftaroundabout I agree, actually, I have a big collection of cds, but I can't buy all existing music, and when I listen here a masterpiece like this one, I enter in a trance state, but with the ads this is hard to achieve.
The adds are the payment instead of actually give money.
I have been everywhere all my life listening to various versions of this symphony. But no matter how great they are, I always come back to this one. It is the benchmark. No matter what anyone may think of Karajan, when it comes to this symphony (and those of Bruckner and Mahler) he just had it nailed in every way. It is EPIC and exactly how it should be played (with the BPO at the height of its powers). Strange to say, I always judge a performance of this work by how profound the two sforzandi are near the very end of the last movement (46:6 & 15). I only have tears and gratitude.
It’s the VPO!
I was deep in the the music in the third movement when an ad popped up and nocked me out of my state and and ruined the entire experience it was so hard to get back in to that state of enjoyment after that. the worlds interest in money has ruined the beauty of art and raising of men's hearts and sadly is the route of most evil
The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial
-Leonard Bernstein
This music reminds me of my deceased mother. May she rest in peace
Yes, music does evoke such happiness and at the same time a deep deep sorrowful and melancholy state. I offer my deepest and sincerest condolences to you.
Tchaikovsky lost his shortly after he got separated from her when he was sent to a boarding school.
I have my father to thank for giving me an appreciation and love for this piece as well as Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings. Thanks Dad. May you rest in peace.
@@kellymeier579 , me too. When I was really young, somewhere between 4 and 6. It's embedded in my psyche. Danke, Papa.
This music is sacred to me
This is not holy, this is fortunately profane by a great homosexual composer.
@ Probably, the word I meant was rather "sacred" (not holy). Thank you for pointing this out. This music is so meaningfu to me that I dared to use the word holy. In this light, there is no difference between sacred and profane.
@ The music has nothing to do with his homosexuality.
It’s neither profane nor homosexual. This is pure music in all its glory.
One of the great symphonies!
Замечательное исполнение внликой симфонии.
A perfect playing of 6th!
14-15 dakikalari arasindaki kisim o kadar iyi ki kelimeler yetmez
So beautiful! My favorite!🌺
Excelente, magnífico, sublime...
The finale is one of the most haunting movements.
It certainly is
Tragic when you know that nine days after the premiere Tchaikovsky died 😢
Top interpretation!!!The best version...🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
@@danieltarraf6953 ...Tastes are different!...I'm listening concert in Paris 2o14.,after Kissin's concert Rachmaninoff 2...France Radio Orchestra,conducted by Myung Chung(phenomenal conductor)...Excellent performance...But,I love the most Karajan😀
@@ljiljanastanic9076 ok sorry for Show my opinion
This is the most germanic Tchaikovsky possible. This is how Wagner should sound, not Tchaikovsky. Go to Gergiev for the real thing.
@@danieltarraf6953 Ey, ¿por qué borraste el comentario?, he estado buscando una interpretación con la que me topé hace unos años acá en RUclips, pero la quitaron por derechos de autor, es sin duda superior a esta. ¿Cuál es la que más te gusta?
As Rubinstein said it is a music that hurts..
I am pretty sure this masterpiece symphony was used in the Bernard Rose 1997 masterpiece movie Anna Karenina.
With the lovely Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean. could not be more fitting for this movie and from the same era.
Anna karenina. My wife loves the book
I loved how tchaikovsky changed the old musical theme beethoven had started, instead of going into darkness into light, its darkness into despair.
6:22 is much more intricate, balanced, and varied. Although I never understood those bizarre trills in the bass.
amazing| goosebumps!
Can someone answer a curious question? I love Western classical music but am a novice in music theory. To my ears, at 13:54 there is a change in tempo from faster to slower which leads to the recapitulation of the main melody at 15:01. Is it a real tempo change or just the composer using longer notes in the same tempo which gives the tempo change feeling? I can see no change in Karajan's gestures at 13:54. He continues to conduct aggressively.
Tchaikovsky uses over the bar tied notes in the melody line and accompaniment to slow the pace dramatically. Both the longer note durations & over the bar extensions slow the music without any need for the conductor to change tempo!!!
He progressed light years between the 5th Symphony of 1888 and 6th of 1893. It sounds like two different composers.
Amazing! At 5:42 I saw him open his eyes!
정말 할말이없습니다 그냥 감각 감각 어찌 이런걸 작곡 하셨을까
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!
1:57 I didn't know Benedict Cumberbatch played the clarinet.
Good catch!
*КРУТО !!! КРУТО !!! КРУТО !!! ОБОЖАЮ ЭТОГО ДИРИЖЕРА !!! ВСЕ ЧЕТКО И БЕЗ ЛИШНЕГО !!!*
*ДРУЗЬЯ, ЗАХОДИТЕ НА МОЙ КАНАЛ И ПОДПИСЫВАЙТЕСЬ*
*ВАС ЖДЕТ МНОГО ИНТЕРЕСНОГО*
*МУЗЫКА, ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ, ЮМОР И СНОВА МУЗЫКА*
44:12 It is one of the most funereal endings in music. As if the composer were saying: "I stop fighting. I give up".
Attraverso questa musica si può intravedere la tragica storia e l'altrettanto tragico oggi di quel popolo... E altri popoli di cui storia si è intrecciata e scontrata con la sua storia. L'Ucraina, la Polonia, la Georgia, l'Armenia...
6 ноября 1893 года не стало Петра Ильича Чайковского...
great Herbie!!!
Movement 1 > 4 (36:53) > 2 (19:20) > 3 (28:12)
Кем нужно быть чтобы во время исполнения такой музыки включать рекламу?
It was one of my great pleasures. RIchard
PURA MARAVILLA
It makes me think of the end of the Romanovs
Thanks😊
(I don't have enough English to translate myself, so I'm writing from the translation) The episode between 14-15 minutes is so perfect that the words are insufficient
This is a superb recording of a very great conducting performance by Karajan - but - it is being used in this film. It is the same with all Karajan's professional films he made of concerts. The orchestra are all miming (not difficult to see, look at the woodwind, you do not see them taking a breath, because they are not playing) The camera is upon the conductor almost all the time, which is what he wanted...
I agree the optics favor ol' Herby a bit too much, I don't agree that the musicians are faking it. String section synchronization would be the hardest thing to fake I would think :)
@@ClemCadiddlehopper60 during a long interview with Simon Rattle, he made it quite clear that the BPO were all playing over a sound track... Karajan did this with all his films. He was livid that they put out the final product using the sounds made by players who had in fact died. Karajan would not allow the musicians faces' to be seen, only his face, perpetually. At times even the bald players were made to wear wigs for the filming. Note also the photographs of people in the seats of the hall... no real people.
Herrlich, dass Karajans Dirigate durch die Technik erhalten bleiben. Schade, dass die Arbeit vieler anderer Dirigenten mit ihnen oft verklungen sind.
I agree
there are so few ballet fans left.
it will be a shame to lose him
@@j1996ize i prefer clovis
@@ValskyrI prefer your mom
i skipped to the end to escape the ads and when i replayed they w e r e s t i l l t h e r e... shame on youtube 😔
I know how you feel. Depending on what browser you use try an adblocker like this.. ruclips.net/user/AdblockPlusOfficial there are several free variations and it stops those F*#$*+! ads from destroying your enjoyment.
Opera comes with Adblocker :)
Please stop complaining about the ads and get ad blocking software.
@@wolfie8012 sure
@conclude You can block ads on mobile, dumbass. Use a web browser instead of the YT app. For example, Microsoft Edge (iOS and Android) comes with AdBlock.
Seine beste Komposition.
For Beethoven, nobody dives
deeper than Karajan. I watched him rehearse Brahms Fourth in 1982 or 3, it was one of myf
Started listening, all of a sudden extremely loud commercial came , should be better controlled
"I know how it ends. And it does not end well."
ha ha ha good one
Friendly reminder that this was *not* Tchaikovsky's "suicide note," as sometimes people allege. After the symphony's premiere, during Tchaikovsky's last week alive, he and his brother Modest had a conversation about death:
“There is plenty of time before we need reckon with this horror; it will not come to snatch us off just yet!” he remarked to Modest, who entered it in his diary that very evening. Then he added, “I feel I shall live a long time.” (From Richard Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music)
I don’t think the music is a suicide note, but it does have suicidal themes. I would not make a judgment on whether or not someone with the struggles Tchaikovsky was facing was considering suicide based on a conversation with a loved one. It is very common for a depressed person to blatantly lie about their mental well-being to not trouble others.
The quote is interesting and I thank you for posting it here with your thoughts. This is simply my interpretation of the piece.
Death laughed at their calculations
Es una de las obras mas hermosas de Tchaikovsky, que nos va entregando los distintos momentos momentos de la vida, la dirección Herbert von Karajan, estupenda, se respeta la solemnidad de toque de gong, pero lo que no me gusto de la grabación, es que no se respeto al final el silencio, que es parte de la sinfonía y quien edito la grabación la corta antes que la sinfonía efectivamente haya finalizado
Bravo
Great Karajan!
COSA C'è DA AGGIUNGERE?LE PAROLE NON POSSONO DESCRIVERE LE EMOZIONI ........SEMPLICEMENTE SUBLIME
💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
10:26--Tchaikovsky _ZAPS_ it here!!!
TOO MANY ADS. AND THEY COME UP IN THE MIDDLE OF A MOVEMENT!!!! I'M USING YT LESS & LESS THESE DAYS. THEY ARE DESTROYING A GOOD THING.
The advert annoys me soooooo much!!!
2:35 #1
14:55 #2
10:25 #3
❤❤❤❤❤
Interesting to see the comparison between Karajan and Petrenko
Mravinsky
this shit is fire
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II. 19:23
Classic!
Самый красивый Караян
Does someone know when this was recorded?
Looks like it was 1985.
completely right !!!
Чайковский Гений и отменить музыку Чайковского,значит потерять разум!!!