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The ‘Pathétique’: Tchaikovsky takes us on a journey from darkness to darkness
12 July 2013, 09:40 | Updated: 30 March 2018, 13:25
TCHAIKOVSKY - Symphony no6 (Pathetique) - Herbert von Karajan & Wiener Phil
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Tchaikovsky thought his Symphony No.
6 was the best thing he'd ever written - but this masterpiece was unremittingly bleak.
All of Tchaikovsky's symphonies are mini-dramas in both human and musical terms - and that was always the composer's intention.
Writing to his favourite pupil, Sergei Taneyev, Tchaikovsky said: "I should be sorry if symphonies that mean nothing should flow from my pen...
Shouldn’t a symphony reveal those wordless urges that hide in the heart, asking earnestly for expression?"
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Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, known as the 'Pathétique', is nothing if not revealing about his emotional struggles against what he saw as hostile forces.
It’s clear from the opening moments in th