ŠFK AND YOUNG TALENTS

State Philharmonic Orchestra Košice
Sander TEEPEN , conductor
student soloists

Programme:

Concert works – selected by soloists based on performances
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 46´

Selected students of the Peter Dvorský Conservatory on Timonová Street will not only perform as soloists of the evening, but will also sit in the orchestra next to the philharmonic orchestra to study and perform Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 together under the leadership of experienced conductor Sander Teepen.

Symphony No. 5, which today is one of Tchaikovsky's most representative and popular works, surprisingly did not immediately gain recognition from professional critics. This is despite the fact that the composer had already achieved many artistic successes throughout Europe at the time of its creation. However, the audience received it with great enthusiasm. The symphony was composed in less than two months in 1888 and is one of those compositions that always captivate and amaze the listener with the power of emotional experience. The work expresses the author's feelings and moods, although he did not specify them in as much detail as in the previous Symphony No. 4. According to Tchaikovsky, the work has a philosophical program, resulting from the author's thoughts at odds with the world. It deals with the predestination of man, his happiness and the goal he strives for in the struggle with fate. Tchaikovsky's relations to the problems and feelings that haunted him were tragic, pessimistic and often indecisive. But unbridled passion drove his imagination from hopeless despair to ecstasy of joy, from resignation to impetuous outbursts of triumph. The symphony contains a motivic core running through all four movements and is contained right from the free introduction to the first movement in the elegiac singing of the clarinet, while the sonata form of the first movement is introduced by a dance-like, moving, but slightly melancholic main theme. At the end of the work, the main theme achieves its triumph and is proof of the unity of thought of the entire symphony.