Symphony no. 4 / Romeo and Juliet

Album by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Daniel Barenboim

Symphony No. 4 and Romeo and Juliet are presented together as a pairing of orchestral works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1877–78 and 1869 respectively. Both pieces exemplify Tchaikovsky's late-Romantic orchestral style, with sweeping string melodies, rich orchestral colour, prominent brass and woodwind writing and an emphasis on dramatic gesture; the symphony unfolds across extended movements with cyclical motifs and stark emotional contrasts, while the Romeo and Juliet overture-fantasy condenses narrative drama and programme elements into a single-movement tone poem that informed later orchestral writing.

Symphony no. 4 / Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky - album cover

First released: 1997

Classical

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1.
Symphony no. 4 in F minor, op. 36: I. Andante sostenuto - Moderato con anima
18:58
2.
Symphony no. 4 in F minor, op. 36: II. Andantino in modo di canzona
9:14
3.
Symphony no. 4 in F minor, op. 36: III. Scherzo. Pizzicato ostinato
5:50
4.
Symphony no. 4 in F minor, op. 36: IV. Finale. Allegro con fuoco
9:19
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Romeo and Juliet
19:09