Mozart.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Symphony No.29       

Tchaikovsky. . . . . . . . . . . Variations on a Rococo Theme  

Tchaikovsky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Symphony No.4    

Kirill Karabits.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Conductor      

Steven Isserlis.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Cello

Mozart wrote Symphony No.29 after an extended visit to Vienna, returning a changed person. His symphonies had become longer, more serious, and more thought-out than any he had written before. His teenage brilliance shines in this enchanting work with its perfect classical balance between grace and energy, and its dazzling colour and expression.

With its graceful main theme and resourceful invention, the Rococo Variations remains one of Tchaikovsky’s most popular pieces. It is a work characterised by carefree charm, grace and the indomitable spirit of his idol, Mozart, filtered through his Russian and Romantic sensibilities.

Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, his first really substantial one, and possibly his finest, was written during a critical year in his life, which saw a disastrous marriage and flight abroad from it, and the beginning of his strange relationship with Nadejda von Meck, the rich patroness he never actually met.

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