Tchaikovsky, Symphony No.5 in E minor, op.64

Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony was recorded at the Tanglewood Festival in 1974 in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Serge Koussevitzky. Leonard Bernstein conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Tchaikovsky's Fifth was one of Koussevitzky's warhorses during the many years in which he led the Boston Symphony. "It was like Koussevitzky's signature, his theme song, one of his national hymns, and I felt his presence on stage very strongly." (Leonard Bernstein)