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These two works from either end of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's career are linked by their tragic endings - the Sixth Symphony with its concluding Adagio lamentoso descending into the deep and gloomy catacombs of a low string sound, and the 'Fantasy Overture' Romeo and Juliet closing with a funeral march. Both of them much-loved staples in the concert halls of the world, they appear here in 'Opening Doors' - the series conceived by Thomas Dausgaard and his Swedish Chamber Orchestra in order to provide the opportunity of hearing large-scale Romantic symphonic works in a new way, with the clarity that a chamber orchestra can offer. Begun in 2006, the Opening Doors project includes a full cycle of Schumann's symphonies ('the most perceptive Schumann cycle in over three decades', International Record Review), Dvorák's 'New World Symphony' ('yet another orchestral gem', klassik.com), and Symphony No. 2 by Bruckner ('perfectly paced and balanced - and the small orchestra is all to the good in making Bruckner's stark originality clear', BBC Music Magazine). These are now joined by Tchaikovsky's last symphony - completed only a couple of months before the composer's death in 1893 - a work which to many is the archetype of a true Romantic symphony.
The Guardian, November 2012
Tchaikovsky's textures are never problematically dense, but some of Dausgaard's tempi, especially his breakneck speed for the third-movement march, undermine the extra crispness the smaller-than-usual string section might have achieved.
Gramophone Magazine, January 2013
The virtues are self-evident: Dausgaard elicits some impressively accomplished and consistently bright-eyed playing, textures are sifted with watchful care...and his readings are abundantly musical, free of eccentricity and eschew any spurious expressive posturing...their innate good taste and sense of classical equilibrium never allowing the listener to forget for one moment Tchaikovsky's veneration of Mozart.
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Works Details
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Pathétique Symphony, Op. 74 - Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard
- Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Orchestra
- Running Time: 42 min. 24 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Form: Orchestral
- Written: 1893
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Romeo & Juliet - Running Time: 19 min. 16 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Form: Orchestral
- Written: 1880
