Dedicated to Tchaikovsky’s friend and close confidant Madame von Meck, the composer wrote in a letter to her that she would find in the Fourth Symphony “an echo of your most intimate thoughts and emotions”. The opening fanfare motif represented to Tchaikovsky ‘Fate’ preventing him from attaining happiness: a comment made all the more poignant when we realise he composed the work in the aftermath of his catastrophic marriage. Yet the finale is an exciting charge towards the finish line, its enthusiasm and boundless energy outweighing the work’s earlier bleakness.
Forthcoming concerts in Bedford:
Philharmonia Strings perform in Bedford
Feb 17 2012, 19:30 - Bedford Corn Exchange
Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay performs and directs the Philharmonia strings in Bedford
Nethsingha conducts in Bedford
Mar 02 2012, 19:30 - Bedford Corn Exchange
Choirs of St John's College and Gonville and Caius, Cambridge perform with the Philharmonia







