The first quarantine symphony (actually Tchaikovsky’s 7th)
mainToccata Classics is releasing a seventh symphony by Alexander Tchaikovsky, nephew of Boris Tchaikovsky.
Composed during the Covid-19 pandemic, it is scored for a socially distanced orchestra of strings, percussion and piano – at which point, writes Tchaikovsky, ‘the virus then took revenge’, and he fell ill.
Toccata’s Martin Anderson writes: ‘Lots of classical pieces have been adapted for performance under socially distanced conditions, but this one is, as far as I’m aware, the first actually written to take account of the necessities of the pandemic.’
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