SYMPHONY No.4 Op.36 - Second Movement

From the publisher's website:
The Fourth Symphony by Tchaikovsky was premiered in February of 1878 in Moscow. While composing the piece two decisive events took place in the life of the composer: his disastrous marriage with Antonina Milyukova and the beginning of his epistolary relationship with Nadezhda von Meck, his patron and confidant. In a letter addressed to her, Tchaikovsky outlines the programme of the symphony; about the first movement, he says: “The introduction is the seed of the whole symphony, beyond question the main idea. This is Fate, the fatal force which prevents our hopes of happiness from being realised.” Regarding the second one, whose initial oboe solo reminds of ballet music, he declares:
“The second movement of the symphony expresses another phase of depression. This is the melancholy feeling which comes in the evening when one sits alone, tired from work, having picked up a book but let it fall from one’s hands. A whole host of memories appears. And one is sad because so much is gone, past, and it is pleasant to remember one’s youth. There were happy moments when young blood pulsed and life was good. There were gloomy moments, too, irreplaceable losses. All that is indeed somewhere far off. And it is sad and somehow sweet to bury oneself in the past.

This arrangement is made starting from an early edition published by Breitkopf & Hartel. In bar 122 we propose g' natural instead of g' flat in the oboe part (originally played by the bassoon one octave lower). The fourth semiquaver of bar 83 (left hand on the piano, originally played by the cellos) is most likely G natural. - Emilio Lede (May 2017)

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