Fate with Bass

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 ...