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.361 Andante sostenato 18:472 Andantino in modo di canzone 8:173 Scherzo. Pizzicato ostinato – allegro 5:034 Allegro con fuoco 7:53USSR Mininstry of Culture OrchestraGennady Rozhdestvensky, conductorSerenade for String Orchestra in C Major, Op. 485 Pezzo in forma di sonatina. Andante non troppo. Allegro moderato 11:216 Valse. Moderato, dolce e molto grazioso 3:467 Elegia, larghe