Name: Fate with Bass
Start: 2025-11-06T19:00:00
Location: Hessischer Rundfunk

Roderick Cox

Boguslaw Furtok

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony is known as his "Fate Symphony." In it, emotions unfold on a grand, cinematic scale. Filled with sorrow and melancholy, it overwhelms with its powerful imagery. In contrast to this Russian emotional drama, this "Quick & Classy" program offers a captivating concerto – for the lowest of all string instruments. It owes its existence to the Italian Bottesini, the "Paganini of the double bass." In the mid-19th century, he was the greatest virtuoso of this instrument, revolutionizing its playing and making it far more than just sing in his music. The hr's solo double bassist, Bogusław Furtok, will enthrall audiences, as will the award-winning young American conductor Roderick Cox and the hr Symphony Orchestra in this famous Tchaikovsky symphony.

Fate with Bass

Hessischer Rundfunk

Carlos Izcaray leads the ASO in the final movement of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony at the 2016-2017 Season Preview Concert on March 4, 2016

The Oslo Philharmonic with conductor Vasily Petrenko performing Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5

Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 / Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor

Symphony No. 5

Double Bass Concerto No. 1