Rediscovering Tchaikovsky’s sublime Symphony No. 5
I was thrown back in time recently, through music, while attending the San Francisco Symphony. The piece in question was a perennial crowd-pleasing warhorse, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Now, if you’re thinking, “been there, done that,” yeah, so was I. I’d chosen the symphony program not for the Tchaikovsky but for the opening work, Grieg’s … Read more