Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 

Of all the great composers. The ONE I could not do without would be Tchaikovsky

An excellent performance of a great work. A few years ago I was lucky enough to see Previn conducting there. Now in my 80s and living in Australia I feel so grateful to be able to share a performance like this through You Tube.

What an orchestrator Tchaikovsky was. The colors are so lush and of course Russian.

This was a fantastic symphony to perform. I was in high school when I played it. Gave me goosebumps during the french horn solo in the second movement.

24:20 onwards is heavenly beautiful…

Tchaikovsky is the greatest of them all because of his astounding versatility. He excelled at symphonies, concertos, opera, chamber, choral, stand alone masterworks such as Capriccio Italien, one of the first great song writers (None But The Lonely Heart) and of course, his magnificent ballet music.

0:42 first movement 14:55 second movement 27:38 third movement 32:55 fourth movement

dat finale, whew! 😲 I don't think I have ever heard this piece before this. wow. it must be amazing to be sitting in there actually making that music, you must feel it in your bones, all those instruments all around you.

Great conductor and fantastic orchestra!!! Petrenko for me is important discovery,incredible personality and musical sensibility!

Watching this during the quarantine of 2020 and enjoying it tremendously. Tak!

Over my sixty years of hearing this great symphony I have never heard such a great performance of this work as this! Maestro Petrenko builds on held notes when other conductors are too passive. Bravo to all! ❤

15:38 in any time of my life i could die happily listening to this melody Seriously......this is the most beautiful symphony i've ever heard

Why are all conductors in Oslo Philharmonic so freakin good looking? Talent and good looks, can't beat that sht.

How lucky and how perseptive of the Oslo Philharmonic to appoint Vasily Petrenko as their new chief conductor, in my opinion he is the finest of the young generation of conductors and does not go in for sensationalism but rather for pure music making at its best. He is destined to become one of the all time greats.

Trying to compliment the conductor. His movements make me think of a magician making magic happen before our eyes. He is very powerful in how he uses his movements to communicate to the orchestra. Would be interesting to hear reactions from the players. I'm no expert but this is fun to watch.

Vasily and Pyotr divine pairing

He is a joy to watch. Orchestra and conductor are as one with the music.

Who could dislike such a thing?

When the vikings get wild and walkiryas play music with them....gods bless them.

41:05 the conductor is so brilliant that he conducts the camera

Oslo Phil. with Vasily Petrenko strikes gold again with this great symphony.

Beautiful second movement. Fourth was just perfect. Superb brass section.

The majestic Oslo!

Maestro Petrenko makes great use of his left hand. As a leftie, who properly keeps the baton in his right hand, I appreciate this. So many have an ineffectual use of the stickless hand.

Mi piace molto questo Direttore, che dirige questa meravigliosa musica di Ciaicosķi! ❤

I got the privilege to perform the second movement of this symphony. Last year and it was amazing. This orchestra plays it beautifully.

Thanks for showing trombone slides at 25:29, it confirmed to me that 5th position makes most sense for that B flat.

Amazing how great the second movement is

Looks like Tchaikovsky can take every (even sheaty) melody and arrange it into a masterpiece

Vasily Petrenko will be one of the Greatest conductor of our era in my opinion

Tenía 24 años cuando descubrí esta maravillosa 5ta sinfonía de Tchaikovsky, mi favorita. Un disco de 33 1/3, en mi recién estrenado equipo de alta fidelidad, me permitió conocer esta música que me ha acompañado toda mi vida. Pasados los sesenta me sigo deleitando con esta excelente versión.

20:00 my favorite place, the transition to the other rhythm ❤

Petrenko is so delicately accurate with his expressions. He embodies the feelings I get from Tchaikovsky better than I ever could. And it obviously translates so well to the players! Everything looks and sounds so precise. Thanks Oslo Philharmonic, these recordings are very very high quality, and they are getting me through college.

Such power grace and Very heart felt.

Either I'm nuts or this is one of most elegant and enjoyable performances of the Fifth Symphony ever recorded. There is literally nothing I would change, and for once I was inspired to imagine the delight people feel when they discover that the third movement is a waltz. What... in a symphony? No worries, Tchaikovsky makes it work, bless his heart.

Simply by listening to this music makes me rethink about my career decision and my tears fall like hell. Classical music is so moving.

impeccable conducting, just watching him is absolutely amazing! Extremely controlled music and you can actually hear the message being received by the musicians as they make sounds with his movements in such spectacular harmony. The movements with index and thumb on the left hand are especially controlled. His eye contact is also key.

I love all the performances of Petrenko. A great talent!!!. Beautiful second movement. Fourth was just perfect. Superb brass section..

love the first movement.. then the second begins.. this is non stop all the way through.. a full on journey especially when played like this man.. i love Tchaikovsky music.. greetings from south wales, uk..

Fantastic orchestra!

I cant even turn the radio on anymore and listen to what people say is music.

Magnificent on every level. How on EARTH could over 200 people dislike this? Are they human?

Be comforted by your music while this world is suffered from Corona 19 pandemic. Also remind me cozy Oslo and friendly people. Beautiful music. Beautiful Oslo Philharmonic.

27:30 hits differently during coronavirus.

i kinda fell in love with the conductor

Absolutely Brilliant!!! #GreatWork

This is probably the best version, thanks to Vasily, he has his magical touch

Vastly Petrenko has managed to turn the RLPO into a World class orchestra and soon he takes up directorship of the RPO in London where he will no doubt return that orchestra to the glorious past that it enjoyed with Beecham and Kempe.

_GOD bless Oslo Phil and all performers, _*_PERFECT!_* 😁

Just perfect! What can we say about the legend: Great Tchaikovski.

Vasily Petrenko's is my favourite interpretation of my favourite piece, Tchaikovsky 5.

Because this performance is absolutely manifique I have listened again with my highest & absolute concentration to each note and sound again ! Absolute masterpiece my Bravo especially to Maestro Petrenko ! Yukié Kudo ( 工藤雪枝) 27th of November 2021 CET 20h00

Вслед за генералиссимусом Суворовым могу сказать: "Мы русские! Какой восторг". Браво Василий Петренко! Браво великий Оркестр ! Чайковскому слава!

Ceaikovski 💫🌞💖

Listening. while walking the dog. Poor pup didn't understand why I did not want to stop walking untill I let her have a listen on the ear buds.

I've known this piece since high school. Love to thunder away during the climactic moment in the fourth movement.

I love all the performances of Petrenko. A great talent!!!

Finally a conductor brave enough to look at the brass in the last mvnt!

His conducting is extremely intentional and purposeful. Wonderful!

When it comes to Tchaikovsky this orchestra has always performed above the rest. Must be the work Jansens did with them in their recording cycle.

A really great performance, much appreciated. Greetings from the UK

perfect edition

Questa sinfonia rispecchia la mia anima tormentata in questo momento della mia vita…

I agree wholeheartedly. No other rendition of the 5th equals the brilliance of this performance by the Oslo Philharmonic.

Petrenko is a great discovery, for me.

This performance remains, to me, the ultimate version of Tchaikovsky's fifth. So much so that even 9 years later, no matter what recording I'm listening to, I still just close my eyes and conjure up the image of these elegant musicians and the animated Mr Petrenko on the podium. Some conductors just leave you with the feeling that not only do they love the music, they are one with that music: they dance and waltz and swoon and laugh and cry along with the notes. Vasily Petrenko certainly is one of those rare creatures. Much obliged to you, sir. 🙏💐

Soberbia!!!!!! Composición del Maestro Tchaikovsky, es mi Preferida por que le saca a cada uno de los Músicos toda su Sapiencia y Energia...Tremenda Orquesta & Excelente Director....

Hands down the best performance of this piece I've ever heard. And I've sampled many recordings. Where conductors tend to blow it, is at the opening of the first movement or in the finale. Either the opening is too slow or the finale is played too fast- which sounds like a train wreck or Tchaikovsky was rushing to finish the piece. The dada da dada- dada da dada in the fourth movement, should never move at a snail's pace. Petrenko nails the 5th from start to finish. Bravo!

Dear Oslo Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko! Thank you for a wonderful and unforgettable concert in Bratislava, for spreading incredible beauty, energy, and spirit over us! You represent the most outstanding example of collective human activity and cooperation. Thank you, thank you... you are very important for the world of today, you are making int a better place! May all the world have the chance to hear and see such concerts! All the best to all of you!

My God, what a conductor!

Mariss started in Oslo too, Petrenko has a very great career to come ...

Bravie to Maestro Petrenko & Oslo Philhamonic& Tchaikovsky . I have listened to this favorite Symphony of mine many times in actual concerts & CDs but this is one of the best in my life absolutely ! Yukié Kudo 27th of November 2021 CET 19h00

21:53 We will rock you!! :D And Petrenko with Oslo Philharmonic truly do. Thank you so much for sharing ;)

That French Horn solo

Tchaikovsky done supremely well. What a performance.

15:36 beautiful solo! the clarinet counter melody at 16:21 complements the horn perfectly

What a brilliant symphony. Touches the heart and soul! Super Orchestra and Conductor!

What a beautiful performance! ❤ I miss my late Norwegian friends so much! I visited them in Norway four times and they were here in California two times...

Such a magnificent performance and a really great audience, showing admiration and respect even before the concert begins! Total class and then some !!!!!

¿soy la única que aplaudió sola en su cuarto como si estuviera ahí?

More than the director, the essence is in the composer. Greatest Tchaikovsky.

Dear Maestro Vasily Petrenko , All The Artists of Oslo Filharmonien and those who contributed so much for this masterpiece !, I do apologise for my 3rd ? or so of comments by me here ... but this such a masterpiece performance of P. I. Tchaikovsky is so superb to an extent of my daily ! rituals of listening to it with my appreciation and joy ... I think this performance is not only artistically / technically so beautiful but also so symbolic of the " theme " and " aim " or " ideal " of our current eras - as of now 4th of February 2022 when we all are facing with this global pandemic without our clear knowledge as to when it ends - so this very theme of this Tchaikovsky Symphony NO5 gives us this doubt / uncertainty of the feeling in tune with the composer at 1st Movement to the superb / victorious / conviction of fate with victory in the 4th movement has , at least in my perception, got a very symbolic message in tune with the current eras ... Also this performance conducted in 2011- the very year which , in Japan , my native country has suffered so much with Tohoku Tsunami & Earthquake where even now the many scars of that huge natural disaster remains after 10 years passed since then ... Also the superb performance of a French Horn Solo Part by this lady in the 2nd Movement is a symbolic theme of gender equality even though with her such brilliant performance, this role does exceed the prejudice that most of the orchestra members especially those with Horn etc have been performed so far by male mostly ( applicable to my so many actual concerts attendance of this symphony all around the world including London UK where I used to reside ) in a positive sense . Brava to this lady with such an exquisite perfection in her solo in the second movement! Last but not the least let me express my appreciation/ Bravie to this such wonderful, powerful and convincing artistic / journalistic concerts as well as dance , theatrical arts & everything that were so amazingly carried out in time for the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony Concerts of 2021!! The very Raison d'être de art as well as the value of accurate message with struggles for realisations with Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet performed by Oslo Filharmonien with this powerful dance was so amazing to my tears to watch ... Also with Maestro Vasily Petrenko conducting of Russian Orchestra the video that I found in via other channel on the You Tube was /is also such a masterpiece! - the another " Romeo & Juillet " by P.I, Tchaikovsky! By Yukie ( Yukié) Kudo -工藤雪枝 JST 06h22 on 4th of February 2022 CET 22h22 on 3rd of February 2022

Simply Magnificent in content sight and sound, Thanks For sharing

Привет из Киева. Исполнение прекрасное! Оркестр как один организм, играет слаженно и четко чувствует дирижера. Полагаю Чайковский порадовался бы такому исполнению его произведения. Есть чему гордиться и Норвегии, имея такой филармонический симфонический оркестр.

Wonderful Petrenko and orchestra

ahhhh...what a mystical synergy....makes one fly and fly...grateful.

WHAT A COMPELLING PERFORMANCE!! That innocent beautiful (very) young man has interpreted this complex work with such clarity, such power, such sensitivity. The tenderness and the strength come in succession revealing the soul of the great composer. I am mesmerized and totally spellbound! I am in love with the conductor as mush as I am with the composer

A new classical conductor star is destined to rise.

Petrenko is just amazing !

excelente director, quede fascinado. excelente orquesta, que energía y pasión

R.I.P. Per Flemström..(Principal Flute)

Extraordinary! Petrenko and all the musicians from Oslo Philharmonic made finally well balanced performance of this Symphony. There's a trap in Tchaikovsky's music: so many great melodic and harmonic ideas occur that some conductors easily follow only passionate Russian idiom and make it too sentimental, exaggerate cantilena and add too much pathetic feeling, so it's hard to listen. Here's quite different and that's why I like it very much. Earlier I liked only Finale. Thanks to Oslo Philharmonic I really enjoy and better understand the musical concept of all parts and whole Symphony. And the dynamic palette is really fantastic! Congratulations maestro and orchestra!

Tremendous, super fine performance AND glad to see the standing ovation all the performers, which is rare in RU-vid concerts, to my dismay!

Wow, what a future this man can have. Great performance!

increíble ejecución, todo perfecto, bravo Petrenko

YES! I"M STILL LISTENING! Can youtube stop pausing music in the middle of a symphony?!

0:38 Andante - Allegro con anima 14:47 Andante contabile, con alcuna licenza 27:37 Valse: Allegro moderato 32:55 Finale: Andante maestoso - Allegro vivace

It must be wonderful to be a part of this.

Отличное исполнение!

Amazing performance! Amazing camera angles! Amazing conductor! Amazing orchestra! Literally everything is amazing abt this performance!