Fiery Impetuosity Tchaikovsky orchestral music - heard by ROBERT ANDERSON '... a powerful and committed performance ...'

Not long after returning to Russia in 1876 from a hearing of Wagner's Ring at Bayreuth, Tchaikovsky worked at his Symphonic Fantasy Francesca da Rimini and began his long-distance correspondence with Nadezhda von Meck. She greatly admired this particular work, and felt it left Wagner nowhere. Based on Canto 5 of Dante's Inferno, it descends to the second circle of Hell, presided over by Minos as judge. In prevailing gloom, the doleful spirits, whirled in all directions by a relentless wind, emit their pitiful cries of misery, condemned for lawless love...

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

ORFEO INTERNATIONAL

HARMONIA MUNDI DISTRIBUTION

RUSSIA

BIRMINGHAM

UNITED KINGDOM

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC