TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONY NO. 4; SERENADE FOR STRINGS - ROZHDESTVENSKY, USSR MINISTRY OF CULTURE

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 / Serenade for Strings*

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky / USSR Ministry of Culture Large Symphony Orchestra

* Vladimir Fedoseyev / Radio Moscow Large Symphony Orchestra

On Rozhdestvensky’s recorded versions of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4: “First-class… a very striking performance, Russian in feeling yet… never going over the top… holds back his big guns… slow movement is phrased very evenly… scherzo is like an arabesque, the string pizzicatos light and gentle. … Then the finale bursts on the listener… with its power to shock at that first fortissimo”
— Gramophone

Symphony No.4 in f minor, Op.36
1 Andante sostenato 18:47
2 Andantino in modo di canzone 8:17
3 Scherzo. Pizzicato ostinato – allegro 5:03
4 Allegro con fuoco 7:53
USSR Mininstry of Culture Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor

Serenade for String Orchestra in C Major, Op. 48
5 Pezzo in forma di sonatina. Andante non troppo. Allegro moderato 11:21
6 Valse. Moderato, dolce e molto grazioso 3:46
7 Elegia, larghetto elegiaco 10:03
8 Finale (Thema Russo). Andante. Allegro con spirito 7:51
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Vladimir Fedoseyev, conductor