Tchaikovsky’s Symphony #5
The historical evidence suggests that the sketches for the Symphony #5 by Tchaikovsky were done while he was at Frolovskoye between 9/21 May and 23 May of 1888. Probably it was this phase of the …
Symphony #5 Archive
Georg Solti Conducts Mahler’s Symphony #5
The lone trumpet call that opens the symphony #5 launches a whole new chapter in Mahler’s music. Gone is the picturesque world of the first four symphonies—music inspired by folk tales and song, music that …
My favorite Symphony by Schubert…
Composer Joseph Haydn composed 104 symphonies, but Schubert did just 9, and one of them was “unfinished”. But Schubert was only 31 when he died… My personal favorite is the Schubert #5, and the reason …
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony #5
Piotr Tchaikovsky composed his Fifth Symphony between May and August 26, 1888, and conducted the first performance in Saint Petersburg on November 17 of that year. Theodore Thomas, who would found the Chicago Orchestra two …
Schubert’s Symphony #5: My favorite…
There is something indescribable for me about this music: It is joyful, yet also sad. Happy, yet also tragic. And the second movement is like the sounds of angels. These sounds need to be made …