Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 (with Score)

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  • Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
    Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, TH 27 (with Score)
    Composed: 1877-78
    Conductor: Evgeny Mravinsky
    Orchestra: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
    00:00 1. Andante sostenuto - Moderato con anima (F minor)
    18:45 2. Andantino in modo di Canzona (B♭ minor)
    28:04 3. Scherzo. Pizzicato ostinato. Allegro (F major)
    33:53 4. Finale. Allegro con fuoco (F major)
    "I should not wish for symphonic works to come from my pen which express nothing and which consist of empty playing with chords, rhythms, and modulations. Should a symphony not express those things for which there are not words but which need to be expressed?" Tchaikovsky, on his F minor Symphony, in a letter to Taneyev in 1878.
    All of Tchaikovsky's symphonies are wrenched from deep inside him and are titanic works of love. In his writings, he speaks of many of them as if they were living things -- the children he knew he otherwise would never have. The prince of these is the extroverted and wild Fourth Symphony.
    By the end of 1876, Tchaikovsky had begun to sketch out his F minor symphony. He had also decided to marry, perhaps hoping for both social redemption and psychological catharsis. In the spring of 1877, one of his students, Antonina Milyukova, revealed herself to be hopelessly in love with him, and in July he married her. The marriage failed, and Tchaikovsky spiraled into a maelstrom of self-loathing such that he abused and then abandoned his wife, and made a half-hearted attempt at suicide. Nonetheless, Tchaikovsky continued work on the Fourth Symphony, perhaps finding escape from the misery of his life in the wonder of the music. In October of the year, his wealthy patroness, the Mme. Nadezhda von Meck, formalized a regular stipend to him. He seems to have drawn inspiration and emotional sustenance from their long-distance relationship, and by January of 1878 the work was finished.
    The Fourth Symphony, although it followed the third by only three years, is suddenly decades, indeed generations ahead of the first three. Gone is Tchaikovsky's youthful naïveté, and in its place is a profound view of Man's insignificant place in a monstrous Universe. The work slams up against the boundaries of defiance, hope, resignation, and triumph and is both richly melodic and thunderously bombastic. Fate -- Tchaikovsky's lifelong adversary and tormentor -- suddenly has a voice, and it is heard in the blast of trombones, horns, and trumpets opening the symphony. Loud, insistent, devoid of warmth or vibrato, all of a note, it commands total attention and returns repeatedly throughout the first movement to quell even the briefest and most innocent passing thought of happiness. Among many candidates, this movement is one of Tchaikovsky's finest in terms of musical structure and emotional impact.
    Still hopeful at the age of only 38, Tchaikovsky actually includes a movement of quiet contemplation and an incredibly effective pizzicato scherzo before setting free what may best be described as a great dervish of joy and celebration, which sweeps the listener away to breathtaking ecstasy. In Tchaikovsky's mind, no doubt this was how it had to be. As relentless and impersonal as is Fate, his defiance of and triumph over it had to be even greater. Advocates of a very few other great composers might argue, but the fact is Tchaikovsky, in his Fourth Symphony, spans Man's coming to grips with his place in the Universe as well as it has ever been done in symphonic music. The work was dedicated to von Meck but cryptically inscribed "To my best friend." The work premiered in February of 1878 in Moscow.
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  • @Dylonely42
    @Dylonely42 Год назад +25

    One of my favorite symphonies ever.

  • @loveclassicalmusicalot
    @loveclassicalmusicalot Год назад +20

    Fourth movement puts a smile on my face.

  • @hendrik.stoops
    @hendrik.stoops 3 года назад +138

    MOVEMENT I (Sonata Form)
    (Note how the fate motif anounces each section of the sonata form)
    00:05 - *EXPOSITION:*
    00:05 - Fate Motif (Introduction)
    01:38 - Theme1
    02:39 - Transition Theme (By fragmenting Theme 1)
    03:58 - More Transition Material
    04:42 - Theme 2
    06:37 - Fragments of Theme 1
    07:57 - Coda of the Exposition
    09:04 - *DEVELOPMENT SECTION:*
    09:04 - Fate Motif
    10:06 - Theme 1
    11:30 - Fate Motif
    11:47 - Fate Motif
    12:20 - Fate Motif
    12:32 - *RECAPITULATION*
    12:32 - Theme 1 Reduced
    13:06 - Theme 2 Extended
    15:40 - Coda Theme
    16:13 - *CODA*
    16:13 - Fate Motif
    17:13 - Coda
    18:10 - Theme 1 Dramatic
    18:30 - End
    MOVEMENT II (Ternary Form)
    18:46 - *SECTION A*
    18:46 - Theme A
    20:30 - Rising Theme
    21:08 - Theme
    22:07 - Rising Theme
    22:35 - *SECTION B*
    24:16 - *SECTION A*
    26:49 - Oboe Solo
    27:28 - Coda
    MOVEMENT III (Scherzo and Trio)
    28:04 - *SCHERZO*
    29:49 - *TRIO*
    31:14 - *SCHERZO*
    32:58 - Coda
    MOVEMENT IV (Sonata Form with no development)
    33:53 - Opening
    34:05 - Small insight of the Theme 2
    34:35 - *EXPOSITION:* (With Repeat)
    34:46 - Theme 1
    34:59 - Transition
    35:18 - Theme 2
    36:55 - Theme 1
    37:09 - Transition
    37:28 - Theme 2
    38:44 - *FATE MOTIF*
    40:03 - Theme 1
    40:38 - *RECAPITULATION*
    40:49 - Theme
    41:05 - Theme 2
    41:14 - *CODA*

    • @mrtchaikovsky
      @mrtchaikovsky 3 года назад +9

      I would deem it more sensible to describe the finale as a rondo. It does not make much sense to speak of an exposition with repeat, since the second theme is each time in a different key (first in Bb minor, then in D minor). Maybe something like this:
      Introduction-A-B-A-B'-C-A'(fragment)-B''(fragment)-Coda
      Cheers!

    • @samaritan29
      @samaritan29 3 года назад +5

      Thanks for the stamps(!)

    • @marcosPRATA918
      @marcosPRATA918 2 года назад

      Esclarecedor.

    • @haoranzhou2944
      @haoranzhou2944 2 года назад +1

      Movement IV is better described as Sonata Ronda Form than Sonata Form because of the repetitive theme 1(Primary Space). Overall form of the IV can be concluded as this: [A B AC B AC] [Development] [A Coda], for AC is the primary space of sonata form, and B is the secondary space. It's possible for rondo sonata form to have three times repeat of the primary space in exposition, but it's simply not possible for primary space to be repeated in exposition of sonata form.

    • @haoranzhou2944
      @haoranzhou2944 2 года назад +2

      @@mrtchaikovsky Simple Rondo Form can not describe the developmental character of this piece. Sonata Rondo form is probably the best choice here.

  • @levandornis6665
    @levandornis6665 2 года назад +76

    35:53 is so insane I love it

    • @ethanos9026
      @ethanos9026 Год назад +4

      Literally my favorite part of the entire symphony

    • @roadman373
      @roadman373 Год назад +4

      i hate playing that part as a second violin though 😭 it does sound fun however

    • @danielramirez7827
      @danielramirez7827 Год назад +2

      Nah i think 38:25 or 12:33

    • @Someone2464-
      @Someone2464- 4 месяца назад

      Agree.

  • @therealrealludwigvanbeethoven
    @therealrealludwigvanbeethoven Год назад +15

    The second movement is absolutely gorgeous.

  • @johnpcomposer
    @johnpcomposer 2 года назад +8

    Thank you. What a thrill to follow the score in this amazing work! A favorite of mine going back to the year 1975 when I was 12.

  • @jdsarfo610
    @jdsarfo610 Год назад +7

    I FINALLY FOUND IT OMFL IVE LOOKIN FOR THIS PEICE FOR SO LONG

  • @doodle2763
    @doodle2763 Год назад +36

    I absolutely love this interpretation of the first movement. Sometimes it feels too dainty, like the brass are too concerned with perfect intonation and rounded tone. I think the brass here absolutely nailed the opening of the piece to Tchaikovsky’s liking. The tempo, phrasing, and dynamics convey emotion so powerfully, and the vast contrast in dynamics, tone, and emotion is extremely apparent in this recording. The recording quality unfortunately takes away some of the amazing-ness of this performance, but it’s still great nonetheless.

    • @JonasReynolds
      @JonasReynolds 11 месяцев назад +1

      If you find this recording on its own then the quality is great, the video is using a lower quality version for some reason. Just search "Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra Tchaikovsky 4th Symphony" or something like that and it should pop up.

  • @eyesandears6341
    @eyesandears6341 Год назад +11

    Thank you from a great fan of Tchaikovsky and Mravinsky! If only the recording quality was as good as the performance, it would be the icing on the cake.

  • @AndreyRubtsovRU
    @AndreyRubtsovRU 3 года назад +193

    Horns play like they are under the gunpoint

    • @jacobbaker5442
      @jacobbaker5442 Год назад +30

      They probably were it's Leningrad

    • @ashleeartus4154
      @ashleeartus4154 Год назад +1

      Fr though

    • @somebody9033
      @somebody9033 Год назад +6

      @@jacobbaker5442 There was more freedom in the Soviet Union than in your glorious America. Freedom of speech is the freedom to agree with today's woke nonsense, not the freedom to have your own opinion.

    • @jacobbaker5442
      @jacobbaker5442 Год назад

      @@somebody9033 shut up nigga

    • @taoxiaonan
      @taoxiaonan Год назад +8

      What

  • @lukewilson9585
    @lukewilson9585 Год назад +2

    The most perfect rendition I’ve heard! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @danielramirez7827
    @danielramirez7827 Год назад +16

    12:33 - Listen to the phrasing
    17:12 - Again just listen to the phrasing
    38:25 - Wow the strings and woodwinds are playing so fast and the brass is playing like the fate of the world rests on them

  • @jsc5492
    @jsc5492 5 месяцев назад +1

    I was so glad to find the wonderful recordings of the 4th, 5th and 6th Symphonies of Tchaikovsky conducted by the maestro (I use not the word lightly) Mravinski.
    In dedicating the symphony to his widowed lady patron, he started his middle age free from financial concerns.

  • @jmbechtel
    @jmbechtel Год назад +2

    So excited to see my local symphony perform this work in mid-June! 🎵🎶🎷🎹🎺🎻🥁🎶🎵

  • @user-qk7mr9dg1w
    @user-qk7mr9dg1w 2 года назад +12

    0:49 c 3:23 e 4:43 三枚目転調 6:31 H 7:42 i 8:12 L9:23 m9:48 n 10:21 o 10:55 p11:31 q 12:11 r13:53 s15:01
    t15:28u16:14 v16:35 リピート17:13
    2楽章19:17 b21:05 tempo1 24:01
    3楽章 28:07
    最後33:53 35 34:46 b35:18 三枚目35:54 c36:05 e37:29 2段目くらい38:29 3/4 38:45
    テンポ1 40:09 p19 40:39 271 41:09

  • @littlewishy6432
    @littlewishy6432 2 года назад +11

    36:34 Score error 2:
    m. 111: The bassoons are supposed to have the exact same part as the oboes and clarinets. That somehow went missing, and that has also affected the bassoon parts from the Brucknerverlag version.

  • @PepperWilliams_songcovers
    @PepperWilliams_songcovers 8 месяцев назад

    The last 9 bars sends chills up my spine even after hearing it over 1,000 times!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @McGenji
    @McGenji 3 месяца назад +4

    *Часть I*
    Сонатная форма
    Вступление - 0:05
    Главная партия - 1:27
    Побочная партия - 5:21
    Заключительная партия - 6:28
    Разработка - 9:04
    Реприза, Главная партия - 12:32
    Реприза, Побочная партия - 13:05
    Реприза, Заключительная партия - 14:15
    Кода - 16:12
    *Часть II*
    Сложная трехчастная форма (с двойной двухчастностью в 1-й части)
    Первая часть A - 18:45
    Средняя часть C - 22:35
    Реприза A - 24:15
    Кода - 26:49
    *Часть III. Скерцо*
    Сложная трехчастная форма
    Первая часть A - 28:04
    Средняя часть C - 29:49
    Реприза A - 31:14
    Кода - 32:57
    *Часть IV. Финал*
    Рондо ABARA
    Вступление - 33:53
    Рефрен А - 34:34
    Эпизод В - 35:17
    Рефрен A(1) - 36:43
    Разработка - 37:27
    Рефрен A(2) (Кода) - 40:00

  • @Sploinky_doinky
    @Sploinky_doinky 7 месяцев назад

    This is one of my favorite symphonies ❤

  • @littlewishy6432
    @littlewishy6432 2 года назад +7

    24:40 Score error 1:
    An extra 100 was added to the measure numbers and affects the rest of the movement.

  • @nightshockplayz5894
    @nightshockplayz5894 2 года назад +3

    What an incredible thrill ride!

  • @gracetate9391
    @gracetate9391 7 месяцев назад +3

    bassoon solo - 1st mvt 13:05 2nd mvt - 26:38
    bassoon excerpt - 4:35

  • @edwardrichard3772
    @edwardrichard3772 10 месяцев назад

    Awsome !!!

  • @invinciblehorizon4599
    @invinciblehorizon4599 5 месяцев назад

    18:48 If anyone is wondering, its a bit rubato/free tempo because the conductor beats on the downbeats depending on the speed the soloist/cellists play but its around 132 = eighth note although the soloists and cellists add pauses so it wont be perfectly intime with a metronome

  • @BlueMeeple
    @BlueMeeple 2 года назад +6

    Anyone else who just cannot hear or play the passage from bar 177 (8:29) to 193 without turning around the beat (so that the beat start to feel like the third 8th note) into the Beeth.7 rhythm?

    • @levandornis6665
      @levandornis6665 2 года назад +2

      Same! I guess you have to just roll with it...

    • @nxyuu
      @nxyuu Месяц назад

      @@levandornis6665 until you have to play it and you can't find the downbeat...

  • @slobodanradovanovic4792
    @slobodanradovanovic4792 5 месяцев назад

    Bravo za note.

  • @timothytiemgroot5136
    @timothytiemgroot5136 Год назад +5

    Tchaikovsky is said to have composed this in the aftermath of his failed marriage. Could all that brass and kettledrum, "fate", be the memory of his being screamed at, and constantly berated?

  • @JJC333
    @JJC333 3 года назад +4

    Does the first movement have harder hitting than the Finale?

  • @bangtanarm3826
    @bangtanarm3826 Год назад

    IT IS SOOOO ❤

  • @Jacob-iz6rr
    @Jacob-iz6rr 3 года назад +7

    Viola except 21:06

  • @Overwhelmingi
    @Overwhelmingi Год назад +1

    34:35 excerpt 1
    35:56 excerpt 2

  • @youmightveseenmycommentsbe7493
    @youmightveseenmycommentsbe7493 2 года назад +5

    time stamps for myself
    8:01 - intonation
    8:29 - rhythm
    7:40 to 9:06

  • @andrewanderson3016
    @andrewanderson3016 6 месяцев назад +2

    This should be fun

  • @RDL1984
    @RDL1984 Год назад +3

    34:03 - 34:05, you're wellcome! #WYWH #PF

  • @05nakhwalmain
    @05nakhwalmain 2 года назад +3

    7:40 excerpt

  • @georgew4629
    @georgew4629 Год назад

    Been too long since last time I heard this

  • @KatarnCrusader
    @KatarnCrusader 9 месяцев назад

    And disciplinary remains mercifully

  • @Poempedoempoex
    @Poempedoempoex 2 года назад +1

    Trumpets are excited

  • @josephchen1199
    @josephchen1199 2 года назад +2

    1:27 for ref

  • @ethandexter9470
    @ethandexter9470 Год назад

    Rehearsal S 14:57

  • @GeraldNorman-vq9je
    @GeraldNorman-vq9je 24 дня назад

    Hey those horns
    really have bite !!!! 😮

  • @user-ox6ox5xt1b
    @user-ox6ox5xt1b 11 месяцев назад

    21:04 2 часть
    29:56 3 часть
    37:28 4 часть

  • @muffin3682
    @muffin3682 3 года назад +4

    1:27

  • @walterkujo7707
    @walterkujo7707 2 года назад

    3:31 to 3:51

  • @tyr2114
    @tyr2114 5 месяцев назад

    Excerpt 1: 7:40

  • @amberugalde2872
    @amberugalde2872 8 месяцев назад

    1. 7:35
    2. 12:00
    3. 17:35
    4. 21:05
    5. 35:50

  • @yassineabderrahmani8665
    @yassineabderrahmani8665 Год назад +2

    41:02 tom and jerry opening

  • @tyr2114
    @tyr2114 5 месяцев назад

    Excerpt 4 : 17:11

  • @tomaslaporta5891
    @tomaslaporta5891 2 года назад +8

    Increíble como influenció la música de rachmaninoff

  • @dannie0998
    @dannie0998 Год назад

    34:32 Excerpt 5b

  • @alxnmxsic
    @alxnmxsic 10 месяцев назад

    Tuba Excerpt 40:48

  • @musickingsoon
    @musickingsoon 2 года назад

    28:05~28:21

  • @grace.christina
    @grace.christina Год назад

    for myself (this is my audition music lol)
    8:12

  • @dawlims1334
    @dawlims1334 Месяц назад +1

    40:45

  • @su4509
    @su4509 4 месяца назад +1

    7:39

  • @Seogyeomkim-Aiden299
    @Seogyeomkim-Aiden299 Год назад +1

    3:18 5:40

  • @marcovasconcelos918
    @marcovasconcelos918 Год назад +1

    эта симфония невероятно оригинальна.

  • @trixsbeats
    @trixsbeats Год назад

    2:18

  • @m3owow
    @m3owow 5 месяцев назад +1

    7:40

  • @feolaviola
    @feolaviola Год назад

    34:30 21:05

  • @Dylonely42
    @Dylonely42 Год назад

    5:20
    13:04

  • @aidibao505
    @aidibao505 Год назад +1

    21:17

  • @bobbythepianist828
    @bobbythepianist828 11 месяцев назад

    The opening sounds like rach 1st piano concerto

    • @Dylonely42
      @Dylonely42 11 месяцев назад +2

      *Rachmaninoff’s first concerto sounds like the opening of this symphony :)

  • @airbornesnow4541
    @airbornesnow4541 2 года назад

    20:07

  • @supranormal_
    @supranormal_ 4 месяца назад

    37:32 letter E

  • @myhighmusicworld8036
    @myhighmusicworld8036 2 года назад +2

    Please, not "(со счётом)" - it's wrong. Only "(с партитурой)" - it's true.

  • @pablim9732
    @pablim9732 Год назад

    04:42

  • @yuchiachao2370
    @yuchiachao2370 Год назад

    5:32

  • @Jacob-iz6rr
    @Jacob-iz6rr 3 года назад +1

    violin excerpt: 34:36

  • @colinkang6665
    @colinkang6665 Год назад

    11:30 2:30

  • @miriamlopez9821
    @miriamlopez9821 10 месяцев назад

    20:56

  • @xlegend8783
    @xlegend8783 Год назад +1

    40:49 H

  • @xlegend8783
    @xlegend8783 Год назад

    7:48 (159)

  • @xlegend8783
    @xlegend8783 Год назад

    3:21 (66)

  • @WilliamBottka
    @WilliamBottka 3 месяца назад

    14:15 timpani excerpt 313

  • @aiden_number3
    @aiden_number3 Год назад

    8:11 chunk J

  • @TheSmart-CasualGamer
    @TheSmart-CasualGamer 2 месяца назад +1

    SOS: Galw Gari Tryfan!

  • @su4509
    @su4509 4 месяца назад

    7:49

  • @rwall514
    @rwall514 4 месяца назад

    40:05
    "Permission?"

  • @pablim9732
    @pablim9732 Год назад

    08:11

  • @helenasofiagutierrez9552
    @helenasofiagutierrez9552 10 месяцев назад +1

    17:13 molto più mosso
    34:34 finale A

  • @kendle977
    @kendle977 18 дней назад

    26:48

  • @xlegend8783
    @xlegend8783 Год назад

    11:38 (259)

  • @shawndounvan1398
    @shawndounvan1398 9 месяцев назад

    anyone in allstate?

  • @JJC333
    @JJC333 3 года назад +1

    Can you add "Coco" by Lucky Chops and "Hey Jude" by Warren Hill between Scherzo and Finale?

  • @WeatheredWrld
    @WeatheredWrld 8 месяцев назад

    Derek this star nonsense, now which is it?
    I’m sure of it.
    34:01
    Intro to Wish you were here

  • @mial1554
    @mial1554 Год назад

    11:24

  • @ShockzG5
    @ShockzG5 Год назад

    35:53

  • @user-hd2tc9ze5i
    @user-hd2tc9ze5i 10 месяцев назад

    La fanfarria del principio es trasladada de las trompas a las trompetas, con lo cual se recrea un tema de juicio. Seguidamente hay otro tema melódico, que consta de 4 notas y de 7, con algún cromatismo lo cual le otorga un carácter patético; éste se desarrolla para desembocar en un final fa mayor. Más lento aparece otro tema nuevo, también con cromatismos pero más pausado. Los timbales rubrican la melodía con golpes de si b - fa. Grupos de 5 notas cromáticas en diálogo crean un ambiente de calma. Pero esta nueva melodía está salpicada con la anterior. Reaparece la fanfarria del juicio, contestada por diseños de la melodía pricipal. La anfarria va modulando en distintos diseños orquestales hasta que culmina en tutti. Se vuelve al segundo tema repitiéndolo de forma literal. Conversan las cuerdas con las maderas. Se repite la fanfarria pero al revés:trompetas trompas. La coda eleva un tema nuevo. Después el primero finaliza brillantemente el movimiento. Al tema del oboe le sigue la cuerda grave. Luego hay una idea melódica ascendente. Se repite la melodía, pero esta vez con un contrapunto de la flauta. Otro tema aparece en un esperanzador fa mayor. Tras un clímax la música se desvanece, con figuraciones rápidas cromáticas. Los violoncellos en solo elabora nuevas figuractenes. Al final es el fagot quien canta la melodía. En el tercer movimiento hay un pizzicato obstinato. El segundo tema en la mayor corre a cargo de la maderea. Las tropas enuncian una figutación más dinámica. Con la repetición del pizzicato termina el movimiento. En el cuarto movimiento 4 notas están seguidas por una figuación de semicorcheas. El tema cambia a menor en el oboe hasta que se llega a un tutti. Le sigue un pasaje fugado. Se reexpone el primer tema. El segundo tema está en los violines con contrapunto de la madera hasta que llega de improviso la fanfarria del primer movimiento; En un positivo fa mayor, la música se encamina a una drandiosa coda. 😊 😊 ❤

  • @danielguardman3530
    @danielguardman3530 8 месяцев назад

    с партитурой*

  • @kambiztaghavi
    @kambiztaghavi 3 месяца назад

    Too much speed killed the beauty of the string passages 4th movement. No . But thanks for the score .

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    @yvettekraft2371 2 года назад

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    @loganjohnson8010 2 года назад +1

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