Muti Conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s 3rd Symphony
The "theme" is "Polish"......
The "theme" is "Polish"......
All three works tonight have some connection to the sea...
Coincidence? Bruckner's 9th Symphony is in the 'key' of D Minor as is Beethoven's 9th. . .find out tonight.
What is it with "5th Symphonies" (Beethoven, Dvorak, Mahler, others) being such amazing works? Tonight's Mahler 5th Symphony includes the "time-stopping Adagietto" movement.
A purely musical melodrama, Berlioz' "Symphonie fantastique" describes the life of an artist, replete with unrequited love, witches, guillotines and colorful hallucinations.