Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 (with Score)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, TH 27 (with Score) Composed: 1877-78 Conductor: Evgeny Mravinsky Orchestra: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra 00:00 1. Andante sostenuto - Moderato con anima (F minor) 18:45 2. Andantino in modo di Canzona (B♭ minor) 28:04 3. Scherzo. Pizzicato ostinato. Allegro (F major) 33:53 4. Finale. Allegro con fuoco (F major) “I should not wish for symphonic works to come from my pen which express nothing and which consist of empty playing with chords, rhythms, and modulations. Should a symphony not express those things for which there are not words but which need to be expressed?“ Tchaikovsky, on his F minor Symphony, in a letter to Taneyev in 1878. All of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies are wrenched from deep inside him and are titanic works of love. In his writings, he speaks of many of them as if they were living things -- the children he knew he otherwise would never have. The prince of these is the