Description
Peter Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique"; Dumka - The Philadelphia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach (piano) / Ondine Hybrid Disc 2008 / ODE 1131-5
UPC 0761195113158
The Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, also known as the Pathétique Symphony, is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's final completed symphony, written between February and the end of August 1893. The composer entitled the work "The Passionate Symphony", employing a Russian word, Патетическая (Pateticheskaya), meaning "passionate" or "emotional", which was then translated into French as pathétique, meaning "solemn" or "emotive".
The composer led the first performance in Saint Petersburg on 28 October [O.S. 16 October] of that year, nine days before his death. The second performance, conducted by Eduard Nápravník, took place 21 days later, at a memorial concert on 18 November [O.S. 6 November]. It included some minor corrections that Tchaikovsky had made after the premiere, and was thus the first performance of the work in the exact form in which it is known today. The first performance in Moscow was on 16 December [O.S. 4 December], conducted by Vasily Safonov. It was the last of Tchaikovsky's compositions premiered in his lifetime; his last composition of all, the single-movement 3rd Piano Concerto, Op. 75, which was completed in October 1893, a short time before his death, received a posthumous premiere.
| Label: | Ondine – ODE 1131-5 |
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| Format: |
Hybrid, Multichannel, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
2008 |
| Genre: | Classical |
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Tracklist:
| Symphony No. 6 In B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" | |||
| 1 | Adagio - Allegro Non Troppo | 19:48 | |
| 2 | Allegro Con Grazia | 7:56 | |
| 3 | Allegro Molto Vivace | 9:12 | |
| 4 | Finale. Adagio Lamentoso -Andante | 12:36 | |
| 5 | Dumka, Op. 59 - Russian Rustic Scene | 9:43 |
- Bass – David Fay (2), Duane Rosengard, Emilio Gravagno, Harold Robinson (6), Henry G. Scott, John Hood (4), Michael Shahan, Neil Courtney, Robert Kesselman
- Bass Clarinet – Paul R. Demers
- Bassoon – Angela Anderson (2), Daniel Matsukawa, Holly Blake, Mark Gigliotti
- Cello – Alex Veltman, Derek Barnes, Efe Baltacigil, Gloria De Pasquale, Hai-Ye Ni, John Koen, Kathryn Picht Read, Ohad Bar-David, Richard Harlow, Robert Cafaro, Yumi Kendall
- Clarinet – Raoul Querze, Ricardo Morales (2), Samuel Caviezel
- Composed By – Peter Tchaikovsky
- Conductor – Christoph Eschenbach
- Design [Cover], Layout [Booklet] – Eduardo Nestor Gomez
- Engineer, Edited By – Everett Porter (tracks: 1 to 4), Jean-Marie Geijsen (tracks: 5)
- English Horn – Elisabeth Starr Masoudnia
- Executive-Producer – Kevin Kleinmann
- Flute – David Cramer (2), Jeffrey Khaner, Kazuo Tokito, Loren N. Lind
- Harp – Elizabeth Hainen, Margarita Csonka Montanaro
- Horn – Adam Unsworth (2), Daniel Williams (3), David Wetherill, Jeffry Kirschen, Jeffrey Lang, Jennifer Montone, Shelley Showers
- Oboe – Jonathan Blumenfeld, Richard Woodhams
- Orchestra – The Philadelphia Orchestra
- Percussion – Angela Zator Nelson, Anthony Orlando, Christopher Deviney
- Piano – Christoph Eschenbach (tracks: 5)
- Piano, Celesta – Kiyoko Takeuti
- Producer [Recording] – Martha De Francisco
- Timpani – Angela Zator Nelson, Don S. Liuzzi
- Trombone – Blair Bollinger, Eric Carlson (2), Matthew Vaughn (4), Nitzan Haroz
- Trumpet – David Bilger, Jeffrey Curnow, Robert W. Earley, Roger Blackburn (2)
- Tuba – Carol Jantsch
- Viola – Albert Filosa, Anna Marie Ahn Petersen, Burchard Tang, Carrie Dennis, Che-Hung Chen, Choong-Jin Chang, David Nicastro, Judy Geist, Rachel Ku, Renard Edwards, Stephen Wyrczynski
- Violin – Barbara Govatos, Booker Rowe, Boris Balter, Daniel Han, Davyd Booth, Dmitri Levin, Elina Kalendareva, Herbert Light, Herold Klein, Hirono Oka, Jason De Pue, Jennifer Haas, Jerome Wigler, Jonathan Beiler, Juliette Kang, Kimberly Fisher (2), Lisa-Beth Lambert, Louis Lanza, Michael Ludwig, Miyo Curnow, Nancy Bean, Paul Arnold (9), Paul Roby (2), Philip Kates, Richard Amoroso (2), Stephane Dalschaert, Virginia Halfmann, Yayoi Numazawa, Yumi Ninomiya Scott, Zachary de Pue
- Violin, Concertmaster – David Kim (7)
