Chernushenko conducts Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

From the Munich Klaviersommer 1994, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 is heard here with the St. Petersburg State Academic Capella Symphony Orchestra under Vladislav Chernushenko. A central figure in Russian musical life and long-time director of the historic St. Petersburg Capella, Chernushenko brings with him a tradition shaped by choral and symphonic practice alike in this passionate, brooding symphony. Heard only a few years after the end of the Soviet era, the performance offers a compelling glimpse of an orchestral sound still firmly rooted in that heritage, in a rousing account of one of the great works of Russian orchestral music.