Notes
When considering Tchaikovsky's symphonic output, the large-scaled Manfred Symphony, Op. 58 (1885), composed between the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, is too often been overlooked. The latter two symphonies exist already in award-winning recordings from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Music Director Andris Nelsons (as does the Sixth Symphony - the "Pathetique"). Manfred, after Lord Byron's dramatic poem of the same name now enriches this acclaimed Tchaikovsky symphony cycle, coupled here with the composer's much shorter Marche Slave, Op. 31.
