This might have had something to do with the usual structure of the symphony, with its brooding opening, fast - almost swaggering - third movement, and slow and bitterly pessimistic-sounding ...
Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule "Pathétique" is ... fast - almost swaggering - third movement, and slow and bitterly pessimistic-sounding conclusion. Tchaikovsky's biographer ...