If ever a composer was ahead of his time, then Tchaikovsky surely lived before the potential of his music could be fully realized. Not only did he die before his colorful works became mainstays of film soundtracks and sources of popular songs, he also missed out on the recording era, in which his orchestral music would prove ideal for demonstrating every improvement in sound reproduction. This excellent hybrid multichannel SACD of the Symphony No. 6, "Pathéthique," and the tone poem Francesca da Rimini is yet another sonic ...
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If ever a composer was ahead of his time, then Tchaikovsky surely lived before the potential of his music could be fully realized. Not only did he die before his colorful works became mainstays of film soundtracks and sources of popular songs, he also missed out on the recording era, in which his orchestral music would prove ideal for demonstrating every improvement in sound reproduction. This excellent hybrid multichannel SACD of the Symphony No. 6, "Pathéthique," and the tone poem Francesca da Rimini is yet another sonic spectacular in a long line of state-of-the-art recordings, perfectly suited for showing off the marvelous depth of surround-sound and the even more splendid colors to be found in Tchaikovsky's scores. In terms of performance, Neeme Järvi and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra find the right mixture of late Romantic ardor and Classical control that this composer strove to balance in his work: the symphony as played here never descends into bathos, but its darkness and pessimism are...
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