Tchaikovsky described his final symphony as "the best thing I have composed or will ever compose". At the height of his powers, Tchaikovsky overturned many of the conventions of the symphony. The second movement, which at first sounds like a graceful waltz, in fact has an unsettling five beats in a bar; the third ends with a blaze of brass and percussion which would have made the perfect triumphant finale; and the actual finale ends with a devastating descent into silence.

00:00 Title
00:30 I. Adagio – Allegro non troppo
18:55 II. Allegro con grazia
26:20 III. Allegro molto vivace
35:27 IV. Finale: Adagio lamentoso

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