Tchaikovsky Six

All the characteristics we value most highly in Tchaikovsky’s music are present in his Sixth Symphony: imaginative orchestration, drama, delicious themes and sweeping emotive power. Whether or not the symphony hides some specific message, hinting at his personal melancholy and untimely death, it is clearly a work of deep and turbulent pathos and remains testament to a musical genius. Written at the end of Dvořák’s three-year contract in New York,...