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Re: Tchaikovsky Symphony 5 (mvt 2)

Author: Liquorice
Date: 2019-10-20 22:27

When I was a student we played this in the conservatory orchestra with a fairly well-known French conductor. He wanted me to play a huge tenuto on the high D, and then also to hold longer on the first of the nine notes. I didn't like either of these ideas, but obviously had to follow the conductor's directions.

After the concert, my teacher came to me and raved about this exact spot. I told him that I hadn't really liked playing it this way, but he insisted that for him it was the highlight of the concert. This shattered my illusion that we need to be personally convinced of our interpretation for the audience to be moved by it.

If I was playing it today (22 years later!) I would still not do these rubati. I think that, the fact that Tchaikovsky made the effort to actually write out the 9 notes shows that he didn't want a random, free kind of trill.

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