Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor op. 74 "Pathétique"
Leonard Bernstein: "The Age of Anxiety" Symphony No. 2 for piano and orchestra
MDR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Dennis Russell Davies | Conductor
Emanuele Arciuli | piano
In his Symphony No. 6, Tchaikovsky breaks with tradition: there is no triumphant final movement to relieve the anxiety of the preceding outbursts and distorted waltzes. The beautiful façade crumbles and ruthlessly reveals the disheartening reality that repeatedly afflicts Tchaikovsky's inner world. Bernstein, on the other hand, makes his theme clear right from the title. In the face of two world wars, the Cold War and the nuclear threat, the literary model for the symphony, the essay of the same name by H. D. Auden, depicts people's anxiety and restlessness, but also their anxiety-ridden search for identities and ideals - a theme of depressing topicality.
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