Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 - 2nd Movement - Op 36 - SYO Philharmonic - 2/4 - Sydney Youth Orchestra

Tchaikovsky Symphony 4 Movement 2, Op. 36. Brian Buggy OAM is conducting the SYO Philharmonic. http://syo.com.au

Movement 1...http://youtu.be/hbGsycumngY
Movement 2...http://youtu.be/e2jGOwWYX6o
Movement 3...http://youtu.be/hnEjFsLJ_pQ
Movement 4...http://youtu.be/0zXIGDf8q9Y

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 , Op. 36, was written between 1877 and 1878 and first performed in February 1878.

Movement 2: Andantino in modo di canzona (B flat minor)
This movement is introduced by the melancholy melody of the oboe. The music's impassioned climax is a reminder of the grieving phrases that dominated the opening movement.

The second movement of the symphony expresses another phase of sadness. This is that melancholy feeling which comes in the evening when, weary from one's toil, one sits alone with a book—but it falls from the hand. There come a whole host of memories. It is both sad that so much is now past and gone, yet pleasant to recall one's youth—both regretting the past, and yet not wishing to begin life over again. Life is wearying. It is pleasant to rest and look around. Memories abound. Happy moments when the young blood boiled, and life was satisfying; there are also painful memories, irreconcilable losses. All this is now somewhere far distant. It is both sad, yet somehow sweet to be immersed in the past.

All his life, Tchaikovsky retained a love for this symphony. At the end of 1878 he wrote: "I adore terribly this child of mine; it is one of only a few works with which I have not experienced disappointment". Ten years later, when referring to the symphony, he wrote "it turns out that not only have I not cooled towards it, as I have cooled towards the greater part of my compositions, but on the contrary, I am filled with warm and sympathetic feelings towards it. I don't know what the future may bring, but presently it seems to me that this is my best symphonic work" (http://www.tchaikovsky-research.net)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётръ Ильичъ Чайковскій) May 7, 1840 -- November 6, 1893 was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. His wide-ranging output includes symphonies, operas, ballets, instrumental, chamber music and songs. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, his last three numbered symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.

Famous recordings of Tchaikovsky Symphony 4 include: Herbert von Karajan - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein - New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) - San Francisco Symphony, Evgeny Svetlanov - USSR Symphony and Valery Gergiev, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

The full score and individual instrument's sheet music can be legally downloaded free of charge at IMSLP - http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.4,_Op.36_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr)

The symphony is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, violins, violas, cellos and double bases.

Most of the performers here are 14 to 21 years old.

Recorded live at the Sydney Youth Orchestra Family Concert, December 3, 2011 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

The orchestra's website is http://syo.com.au
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