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Of the dozens of concerts given by Radio France every season, there are some which deserve to be preserved for posterity. Indeed, concerts are unique moments, often highly charged with emotion, which Radio can broadcast and disks can preserve. This at least was our idea when we created this collection. With it you can not only hear concerts recorded in previous seasons, but also archival recordings, musical 'incunables', if you will, held at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, heir to the archives of the French radio. We hope that these disks will perpetuate the mystery and shine with living memory.
Jacques Taddei, music executive officer of Radio France
translated by Peter Hicks
orchestre national de france director : kurt masur As André Lischké has written, 'the Fifth is the only one of Tchaikovsky's symphonies that is wholly cyclic; that is, the doleful, anguished theme with which it begins will reappear in all the other movements: blaring out amid the noble pathos of the Andante cantabile, lugubrious in the final bars of the gracious Valse, it takes on in the finale a religious colouring, close in spirit to a chorale.'
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