Although American orchestras are obsessed with Tchaikovsky’s last three symphonies (One critic was quoted as saying that Tchaikovsky wrote three symphonies, “the fourth, fifth and sixth.”), I want to give a shout out to his first symphony, a work filled to the brim with invention and memorable melodies.
Performances of the first are rare I am [...]
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