Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6

The next album in Signum’s series of live orchestral recordings with the Philharmonia features the late Sir Charles Mackerras conducting Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 6 (Pathétique).

This was Tchaikovsky’s final completed symphony, premiered in St Petersberg under the baton of the composer in 1893, nine days before his death, dedicated to his nephew Vladimir ‘Bob’ Davydov.

The Philharmonia Orchestra are widely recognized as the UK’s finest performers with an impressive recording legacy. The orchestra prides itself on collaborations with the finest musicians of our day.

SIGCD253 57 minutes 57 seconds

'There is an immediacy and incisive, almost forensic clarity to this 2009 live performance that makes for tremendous drama at points of crisis. The crack of doom heralded by timpani at the start of th ...
'Tchaikovsky composed his last, obsessively tragic symphony just before his sudden death from typhoid in 1893—with the result that, ever since, the world has wondered whether or not he intended his ma ...