It is early Sunday morning. I have taken breakfast, and am treating my ears to Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5. Playing on my personal computer's CD player is the recording of the symphony, conducted by Valery Gergiev, played by the Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic).
This recording is actually a live recording, and somehow there is this sense of "life" in it. The fun part about listening to music live is that somehow, live performances are unpredictable. Somehow, audience's responses during a live performance may also influence the way the musicians respond to the music. Furthermore, to play well during a live performance and to be totally involved in the music playing, players have to concentrate absolutely. I think the Vienna Philharmonic did very well for this recording.
There is a write-up of the Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 found at: http://www.tchaikovsky.host.sk/work/sym5.htm (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Page)
I seem to keep hearing a series of conflicts occuring within the symphony itself. The tempo changes rather dramatically at various points of the symphony, and so does the mood. It was as if the symphony was a creative attempt to depict the emotional and psychological conflicts that the composer (or anyone person) could be facing at times of his life.
It will be nice if my orchestra could play the entire symphony. Somehow, it feels rather incomplete to just play one particular movement from a symphony. Anyway, I know for certain that for the performance on 9 Mar 2005, the orchestra will only be playing the first movement of this symphony. A pity.
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