For Romantics / SMS 3
Programme
Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra
Douglas Boyd, conductor
Massimiliano Miani, clarinet
Tomoko Akasaka, viola
“This is Fate: this is that fateful force which prevents the impulse to happiness from attaining its goal, which jealously ensures that peace and happiness shall not be complete and unclouded, which hangs above the head like the sword of Damocles, unwaveringly, constantly poisoning the soul. It is an invincible force that can never be overcome – merely endured, hopelessly.” Thus Tchaikovsky wrote about his newly created Fourth Symphony in a letter to his patron and closest friend, Nadezhda von Meck.