IDAGIO | Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor 881488190489

Featuring

Fabio Martino
Dan Ettinger
Stuttgarter Philharmoniker
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Recording & Production

The Stuttgart Philharmonic received the 'Prix Rachmaninoff 2006' from the composer's grandson for their concert cycle featuring all of Rachmaninoff's symphonies, piano concertos, and other orchestral works.

Critical Reception

Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 was initially well-received internationally, helping establish the composer's reputation, but its reception in Germany changed significantly after World War I.

Composition History

Rachmaninoff revised many of his works, sometimes multiple times; only his Second Piano Concerto exists in a single version.

Compositional Technique

The 1917 revision of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1 includes completely new material, such as a long tutti in the first movement's development and new codas, significantly altering its overall effect.

Critical Reception

Theodor W. Adorno, a German philosopher and music critic, famously dismissed the slow movement of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony as 'film music,' equating it with kitsch.

Critical Reception

Later in the 20th century, critics began to denigrate the finale of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, with Nicholas Temperley calling it 'blaring and vulgar' in the 1980 New Grove Dictionary.

Composition History

Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1 exists in two distinct versions, composed 26 years apart, with the first completed when he was an 18-year-old student in 1891.