Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 (with Score)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64, TH 29, ČW 26 (with Score) Composed: 1888 Conductor: Evgeny Mravinsky Orchestra: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra 00:00 1. Andante—Allegro con anima (E minor) 14:37 2. Andante cantabile con alcuna licenza (D major) 26:32 3. Valse. Allegro moderato (A major) 31:57 4. Finale. Andante maestoso—Allegro vivace (E major) The fifth symphony was composed in 1888, between the Manfred Symphony of 1885 and the sketches for a Symphony in E-flat, which were abandoned in 1892 (apart from recuperating material from its first movement for an Allegro Brillante for piano and orchestra a year later). As for the numbered symphonies, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 was composed between Symphony No. 4, which had been completed ten years earlier, and Symphony No. 6, composed 5 years later, in the year of the composer’s death. Like the Symphony No. 4, No. 5 is a cyclical symphony, with a recurring main theme. Unlike No. 4, however, the theme is heard in all four movements, a feature Tchaikovsky had first used in the Manfred Symphony, which was completed less than three years before No. 5.