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| ARTIST: | Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker Chor, Edmund White |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Decca |
| TYPE: | Classical, Orchestral & Symphonic, Romantic Symphony, Symphonic |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Symphony No. 6: Adagio - Allegro non troppo, Symphony No. 6: Allegro con grazia, Symphony No. 6: Allegro molto vivace, Symphony No. 6: Finale. Adagio lamentoso |
| UPC: | 028946060926 |
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Customer Reviews of Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 6 / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic (Penguin Music Classics Series)
Sorry, Herbi, sorry Berlin Phil... ... but there are better ones out there.
To me the Pathetique is about raw emotions: About anger, utter despair, but also tenderness and love for life. It is about the final account of someone's life; someone in a suicidal mood (PYT, of course, who was forced to commit suicide). The fate is determined and unavoidable, and so all reservations are gone; as if someone lets his pants down and is crying out loud for a final last time.
There is nothing "suave" or "streamlined" about this symphony, and that is where this recording goes wrong. Too much discipline, too much direction and control, and not enough emotion.
Listen to the Mravinsky accounts (1950s and 1990, both with the Leningrad Phil), or Fritz Reiner's with the CSO. Far better than this one.
Just Listen...
There are many reasons for buying this disc but one stands out for me. Put on the First movement and listen to the Second subject theme when it reappears after the anguished development. At this point Tchaikovsky outdoes himself and let's loose a theme of such magnificent melancholy that it is hard to comprehend. The extension to the theme (first heard earlier in the movement) is, in my opinion, Tchaikovsky's finest hour!. And Karajan and the BPO, like the rest of the symphony, play it with such grandeur and passion as to silence all would-be rivals. Have NO reservations------this CD HAS to be in your collection.
The fiercest recording of Tchaikovsky's Sixth
One of the best Karajan discs from the late '70s, before the advent of digital recording, finds the great conductor and orchestra at their peak. Buy it for the March alone; my partner's recent comment was "They're playing as if the devil were chasing them." But all of the various moods Tchaikovsky weaves into this masterpiece--melancholy, anguish, boisterousness, resignation--are perfectly conveyed by Karajan and the BPO. Get the Bernstein (on DG) for an angry final movement (conducted that way in response to rumors about Tchaikovsky's enforced suicide), but keep the Karajan for perfection.