Name: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique' & Souvenir de Florence
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique' & Souvenir de Florence

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Release Date: 25th Apr 2025
Catalogue No: ONYX4259
Label: Onyx
Length: 81 minutes

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Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70

Work length36:34

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Domingo Hindoyan

I. Allegro con spirito

Track length11:37

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II. Adagio cantabile e con moto

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III. Allegro moderato

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IV. Allegro vivace

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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique'

Work length45:16

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Domingo Hindoyan

I. Adagio - Allegro ma non troppo

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II. Allegro con grazia

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III. Allegro molto vivace

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IV. Adagio lamentoso

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“Italy, Florence—nothing gives me the slightest pleasure so far,” Tchaikovsky confessed to his brother. “I cannot live outside Russia.” Deep in the grip of depression, he nonetheless completed his tenth opera, The Queen of Spades, and began work on a string sextet that would become Souvenir de Florence, which he finished upon returning to Russia in June 1890. Despite his gloomy letters, traces of affection for Florence surface in the music. In the Adagio, wistful Russian folk melodies entwine with a theme inspired by the Italian city. Perhaps he cared for it more than he let on.

By 1892, creative struggles persisted. A symphony in E-flat was abandoned—its fragments later reworked into the Third Piano Concerto and the Andante and Finale. Soon after, he began a new symphony in B minor. If Souvenir de Florence carries melancholy close to the surface, it’s nothing compared to the emotional depths of the Sixth Symphony. “I am very proud of the symphony,” he wrote. “I think it’s the best of my compositions.”

Domingo Hindoyan and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra bring out these nuances with striking clarity—the volatility, the vulnerability, and the fleeting moments of light. In their hands, Tchaikovsky’s internal struggle becomes almost tactile, the music swelling with all the weight of a farewell. Nine days after conducting its premiere, Tchaikovsky was dead—one of the many victims of the cholera pandemic sweeping the Russian Empire.

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