feel like going through an unfamiliar set of Tchaikovsky's symphonies, and decided on Temirkanov/RPO

start of Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 13 "Winter Dreams"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmBo3wB0d_s&list=OLAK5uy_n5WRw6iD9CE_AW9aMaaPr_e3yeZh_V41w&index=2

start of Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeJgVhrN1iA&list=OLAK5uy_n5WRw6iD9CE_AW9aMaaPr_e3yeZh_V41w&index=6

start of Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldqrbNvhzU4&list=OLAK5uy_n5WRw6iD9CE_AW9aMaaPr_e3yeZh_V41w&index=11

Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDkgxJI1C7g&list=OLAK5uy_n5WRw6iD9CE_AW9aMaaPr_e3yeZh_V41w&index=15

start of Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 in D Major, Op. 29 "Polish"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNtcPi3onSg&list=OLAK5uy_n5WRw6iD9CE_AW9aMaaPr_e3yeZh_V41w&index=15

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n5WRw6iD9CE_AW9aMaaPr_e3yeZh_V41w

This one never had much commercial success or popular acclaim. However, critics seem to hold it in high esteem, and I've enjoyed what other few Temirkanov recordings I've heard, so let's give it a shot. I also added Pletnev's cycle on DG with the Russian National Orchestra -- I usually avoid Pletnev's conducting but what the hell, can't hurt -- and plan to revisit Petrenko/Royal Liverpool.

Always fun to listen through different and new sets of Tchaikovsky's symphonies! It's interesting that there isn't much interpretive variance between various recordings, unlike, say, Mahler or Bruckner or Beethoven, yet the handful of performing decisions there are to make prove consequential and distinctive, and even for a layperson not too familiar with the works, can make-or-break the works entirely; eg. a 4th in the hands of one conductor can be dull and tedious, and another vigorous and powerful.