San Francisco Symphony
Elim Chan leads selections from Tchaikovsky’s ethereal and primal fairy tale, Swan Lake. Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, Pathétique, inhabits a mood of exquisite longing. He called it “the best thing I ever composed or shall compose.”
Show Notes
Program
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Selections from Swan Lake, Opus 20
Act II: No. 10 Scene Moderato
Act I: No. 2 Valse
Act II: No. 13 Danse des cygnes (IV) Allegro moderato – Pas d’action (V) Andante
Act IV: No. 29 Scène finale
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Opus 74, Pathétique
ORCHESTRA: San Francisco Symphony
CONDUCTOR: Marin Alsop
SOLOIST: Gabriela Montero, piano*