Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4

The Philadelphia Orchestra
Jaap van Zweden, Conductor

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4

Over a mere two years, Tchaikovsky poured out a stream of masterpieces, culminating in his Fourth Symphony, a 19th-century Russian music drama to rival the great literary dramas of Pushkin and Tolstoy. The young Russian knew he had achieved something extraordinary, calling his symphony "better than anything I've done so far."