Tchaikovsky: Symphonies / Svetlanov

It would not be an overstatement to call Tchaikovsky, a composer of universal gifts, one of the creators of the Russian symphonic tradition. In general, his symphonies follow a common European, Beethovenian template, including in their intensity of feeling and dramatic emotionalism. His Manfred Symphony paid homage to the romantic direction of programmatic music coming from Berlioz and Liszt. This Melodiya five-disc set presents Tchaikovsky’s symphonies as realized in 1967 by the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra led by the then 40-year old conductor Evgeny Svetlanov.

Price: $72.98