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Radio 3,42 mins

Tchaikovsky: Eighteenth-Century

Discovering Music

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Charles Hazlewood is joined by the BBC Philharmonic and cellist Robert Cohen to explore two of Tchaikovsky's 18th century-inspired works - the Rococo Variations and the orchestral suite, Mozartiana. Tchaikovsky's music appears to embody the Romantic passions and storms of the his age, but the composer himself often took solace reflecting idealistically on the sensibilities of the 18th century and in particular, his beloved Mozart.

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