Mravinsky-Tchaikovsky I

Among a few versions of Tchaikovsky 5 by Mravinsky we can see on YouTube, I think this performance is the best. Is the rest of this concert available anywhere?

Wow! Bravo to Valeri Bezrutchenko (clarinet). His sound enters directly into the heart.

I love the sudden diminuendo that he gets from the strings at 4:15. It's incredible!!!

Forgot to say: musically speaking, one of the best and from the old russian school.

I fully agree but you all know that part  of the integrity of this cultural growing in the USSR was to achieve excellence.If not, well, you might end at Siberia.He keeps in his lapel the Lenin merit medall!!!!

I agree w/ labitx88. Shostakovich trusted Mravinsky to get it right. Take the 11th symphony for example. Icy. The chaos of the massacre in the square triggered and stirred by the frightening rat tat. Mravinsky did some good work with the rhythm section in evoking the sharp report of mechanized murder.

There is nothing quite like this.

It conveys Tchaikovsky's despair with life perfectly.

Music doesn't come much better, nobody could translate this piece like Mravinsky did.

Legendary.

It sounds so heart wrenching.

But that's the reason why he's perfect on tchaikovsky, rachmaninoff and shostakovich.

Did he conducted Rachmaninov?I didn't know.I like a lot Bernstein and Karajan performances too.But Mravinsky is special