Previously announced conductor Andrey Boreyko will not be able to participate in the concert

Russian National Orchestra
Conductor – Mikhail Pletnev

Both Tchaikovsiy and Bethoveen are often hailed as great symphonic composers. And actually, symphonist is not a composer who follow the rules of writing symphonies, but a real artist with a unique polyphonic way of thinking. Thus, he or she raises universal problems, like artists’ relations with universe, cosmos, and merciless Fatum. It’s the theme of that senseless but mocking destiny that goes through either Beethoven’s Fifth and Tchaikovsky’s Fourth. 

Beethoven feels his deafness coming, but he writes to his friend: “You’d better see me happy, as those like me should be in this lifetime, but not miserable, no! For me it’s just intolerable! I’ll take my destiny by the throat, it won’t break me. Oh, it would have been so great, to live thousands lives! As for a calm existence – no, I don’t feel like it, I’m not made this way”. 

Totally devastated Tchaikovsky is alone in the crowd of incomprehensible, though painfully loved, mankind: “If you can’t find joy inside yourself”, he writes to Nadezhda Mekk about the plot of the symphony, “than you’d better look at other people. Meet your people, see what fun they have, and how they can hang on to that feeling. … Have fun with other people’s fun. Yes, it’s possible to live, anyway”.