JTI Friday Series

Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique)

Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Miloš Karadaglić guitar

No one work encapsulates Tchaikovsky’s ultra-expressive, heart-on-sleeve creative outlook more than his tortured Sixth Symphony. A distraught Tchaikovsky, his disastrous private life torturing him in life and forcing him into death, filled this symphony with honesty and passion – and he committed suicide nine days after its first performance. Barely five decades later, inspired by the picturesque gardens of the Palace of Aranjuez outside Madrid, Joaquín Rodrigo wrote a piece that displays an altogether different sentiment: a colourful, strong yet tranquil evocation of elegance and beauty for guitar and orchestra whose contented, serene beauty is legendary.

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Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez - I. Allegro con spirito
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez - II. Adagio
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor (Pathetique) - II. Allegro con gracia
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor (Pathetique) - IV. Adagio lamentoso

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