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Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique'
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Orchestral » Symphonies
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Mravinsky's legendary stereo London recordings now remastered, at half the price they used to be. Great performances makes this essential for every library. —
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Building a Library, April 2007, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Building a Library, January 2017, Also Recommended
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Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 3, 4 & 6
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
this second half of his Tchaikovsky symphonies cycles thrusts home for me a singular skill of his: the ability to build a long line over a substantial period of time. It happens to the generous... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th January 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2017, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky - Complete Symphonies
RecommendedOslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, April 2021, Recommended Recording - Symphony No. 5
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique' & Souvenir de Florence
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Domingo Hindoyan
[Souvenir de Florence is] given impassioned thrust by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Domingo Hindoyan who has an ear for drama in this weighty all-Tchaikovsky recording...There... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2025, Orchestral Choice
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique'
RecommendedMusicaeterna, Teodor Currentzis
Currentzis has a clear and unified vision of the music’s trajectory, his interpretation grabbing you by the scruff of the neck…Most remarkable of all is the clarity of sound achieved here which... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th October 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017, Nouveauté
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2018, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, Recording of the month
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Orchestral
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The sound is so stunningly present, so perfectly tailored, that I missed any sense of a single occasion. Details are amazing, for which I’m grateful, but sometimes they only add to a feeling... —
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Record Review, 25th May 2019, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th May 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
Mussorgsky: Prelude To Khovanshchina
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
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Sergiu Celibidache Conducts Haydn and Tchaikovsky
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Sergiu Celibidache
Extremes of tempo characterised the performances of his later years, but in 1959, these were less pronounced, even if the opening Largo of Haydn’s Symphony No. 102 is on the stately side...It’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, Historical Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Historical
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Bychkov’s Russian roots make him mindful of Tchaikovsky’s classicism, the emotion always ‘contained’ until it can be contained no more. The explosive development section is a controlled panic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique' & Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
The symphony's first movement, especially, reaches a level of intensity that's seriously frightening, with astonishing virtuoso firepower from every corner of the orchestra. —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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