Discovering Tchaikovsky

Synopsis: Conductor Charles Hazlewood explores two of Tchaikovsky’s composer’s key works, The Fantasy Overture from Romeo and Juliet and the Sixth Symphony, The Pathetique.

In the first programme he examines the Fantasy Overture from Romeo And Juliet, considered Tchaikovsky’s first mature masterpiece. Working with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Hazelwood explores how Tchaikovsky distilled the essence of Shakespeare’s tragedy into music. He also looks at the composer’s earliest versions of the piece.

The second programme focuses on the first movement of Tchaikovsky’s final work - the Sixth Symphony, ‘The Pathetique’, which premiered only a week before his death.

For each piece of music, Charles Hazlewood dissects the score itself, working through the music and explaining and analysing key points in the material with the orchestra performing fragments of the score to illustrate his points. There then follows a full performance of the score, filmed at the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool’s Winter Gardens.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Television; Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 2007
Duration: 120 mins

Production type: Documentary/Educational/News
Plays: Romeo and Juliet
Subjects: Music
Keywords: music - classical; music composition; Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich (1840-1893); Shakespeare, William

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