 | from Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 (SIGCD253) 1 Adagio – Allegro non troppo [18'43] 46 minutes 12 seconds 4 tracks2 Allegro con grazia [8'03] 3 Allegro molto vivace [8'28] 4 Finale: Adagio lamentoso [10'58] '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 ... |