Tchaikovsky: Fatum, Op. 77 (with Score)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
Fatum, symphonic fantasy, Op. 77, TH 41, ČW 38 (with Score)
Composed: 1868
Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra
Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev
00:00 Moderato assai (G minor)
00:51 L’istesso tempo (C minor)
03:05 Più mosso, largamente (A-flat major)
07:08 Molto allegro (C minor)
09:50 Moderato assai (G minor)
10:36 Più mosso (E-flat major)
13:49 Allegro molto (C minor)
16:00 Moderato assai (C minor)
17:00 Andante (C major)
17:44 Moderato assai (C major)
Tchaikovsky originally wrote this tone poem in 1868 to his own very abstract program dealing with the cruelty of fate in people's destinies. Tchaikovsky himself was not satisfied with the outcome--indeed he destroyed the orchestral score, which was reconstructed from a set of parts after he died. It begins with a unisonal statement of a very emphatic broad-noted theme that starts and stops several times. Several themes that express hopeful aspirations and resignation to inevitability arise against a gloomy background--the first of these is introduced imitatively by woodwinds and eventually taken up and extended by strings, and the second shows up initially in high woodwinds and is likewise extended by strings. Timpani introduce another idea as the hand of Fate shows up again in an ominous theme that is driven by some insistent motifs with some rather fanfarish and galloping material. The feeling of someone resigning himself helplessly before destiny wells up in waves of plaintive melody and rushing background figures. The introductory gesture returns, beginning the second half of the work in which previously heard themes are restated and extended in accord with the dramatic curve.
All Music Guide
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Wikipedia article
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International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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[@McGenji]

Сонатная форма
Вступление - 0:05
Главная партия - 3:05
Побочная партия - 7:08
Разработка - 8:06
Реприза, Вступление - 9:50
Реприза, Главная партия - 10:36
Реприза, Побочная партия - 13:49
Кода - 14:49

[@jesustovar2549]

Not really that bad for an unknown Tchaikovsky work, a good try for a symphonic poem by his part even if it's not at the same level of his best known works, surely an underreated piece.

[@santiagoteves7224]

The beginning is awesome!

[@steveegallo3384]

Wondrous.....BRAVO from Acapulco!

[@henryng0725]

Thx for sharing this wonderful music! I listen to this for the first time and you can see what Tchaikovsky would do in his Fourth Symphony later. Isn’t the opening section also in G minor instead of C minor?

[@Trombonemusic765]

Pov: Twosetters clicking on anything that says Tchaikovsky.
Edit: First one here lol

[@danolpe]

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[@anangryjuicebox2799]

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[@Tokkemon]

I can understand the negative feelings around this work. It's meandering compared to his much tighter other works.

[@henryng0725]

If I composed this kind of “dissatisfied” work I would consider myself to have finished a masterpiece LoL, so I’m definitely not reaching Tchaikovsky’s level haha!! Of course this work is less tighter than his last three symphonies, it’s still an achievement!

[@jesustovar2549]

@@henryng0725 I would have thought myself that too, but even obscure works like these are masterpieces compared to whatever modern pop songs plays on the radio, hahaha!

[@inbb510]

Too bad Tchaikovsky destroyed score due to his self dissatisfaction with the work.

[@jmbechtel]

It is VERY interesting to consider, to be sure.

[@G50Oliveira]

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