I love Tchaikovsky's music ever since I
can remember myself growing up and
coming in contact with it for the first
time like all first loves this one never
died beloved friend is the way
tchaikovsky an additional neck would
sometimes address each other in letters
and I thought how appropriate it is for
us to name the project this way because
in the end what is the music that we
love so deeply then not our beloved
friend
every culture musical culture in
particular has its genetics and it was
after all Tchaikovsky who said that from
the bud of linkous music the entire
Russian music grew and Tchaikovsky
certainly is a child of that I have
always found Tchaikovsky's music
extremely complex extremely
psychological and a deeply personal it
is absolutely fascinating this history
of this concerto it has three versions
we have always known the third one but
the third version did not come into
being until Tchaikovsky died he had
composed the concerto in eighteen
seventy five and he showed it to Nikolai
Rubenstein who was his great supporter
who was his friend and Rubinstein
basically tore it to pieces he felt it
was not pianistic it did not sound
particularly well so he suggested the
Tchaikovsky works and Tchaikovsky wrote
a letter to nadeznha for neck where he
describes that encounter and he said
he's not going to change a single note
and he didn't this is what Tchaikovsky
himself had in mind when he composed it
we will be performing his manfred
symphony it's a programmatic work the
idea of programmatic music at that time
was very very important to artists
Berlioz when he came to Russia he
shocked them with his music because of
its originality what is fascinating but
Manfred is that the harmonic language
being so chromatic that in a way
immediately think aha he couldn't
probably didn't want to escape the
influence of Berlioz
tchaikovsky steam are of destiny one
here is already in the Fourth Symphony
which opens with it one hears and the
fifth symphony which we will perform and
the sixth symphony of course is
something that his own brother modest
called that he wrote a requiem to
himself what is important to me is the
meaning of the sixth Anthony and
particularly the end of its last moment
which is traditionally believed to be an
acceptance of death and resignation in
front of it and I don't believe that
that to be the case I think the
indications in the score prove otherwise
it is not acceptance it is protest
against the music of Tchaikovsky what is
on the surface is beautiful melodies but
what is the depth of it is tremendous
sophistication of writing harmonic
rhythmic not only melodic we keep
discovering in them so much more about
us than ourselves