Like all first loves, this one never died.

Beloved friend is the way Chekov still additional may quit, sometimes address each other in letters.

And I thought how appropriate it is for us to name the project this way because in the end, what is the music that we love so deeply than not our beloved friend?

Every culture, musical culture in particular has it's genetics.

And it was, after all, Cekovsky, who said that from the Bud Off Linkous music, the entire Russian music group and Cekovsky certainly is a child of that.

I have always found Tchaikovsky's music extremely complex, extremely psychological, on dhe and deeply personal.

It is absolutely fascinating this history of this contract.

Er it has three versions.

We have always known the 3rd 1 but the third version did not come into being until Cekovsky died.

He had composed the concerto in 18 75 and he showed it to Nikolai Rubinstein, who was his great supporter, who was his friend, and Rubenstein basically tore it to pieces.

He felt it was not pianistic.

It did not sound particularly well, so he suggested the Cekovsky works and Cekovsky A wrote a letter to additional format where he describes that encounter, and he said he's not going to change a single note, and he didn't.

This is what Cekovsky himself had in mind when he composed it.

We will be performing his monthly symphony.

It's a programmatic work.

The idea off programmatic music at that time was very, very important to artists, barely yours.

When he came to Russia, he shocked them with his music because of its originality.

What is fascinating.

But Manfred is that the harmonic language being so chromatic that in a way immediately think Ah ha, he couldn't probably didn't want to escape the influence of values Cekovsky steam our destiny.

One here is already in the Fourth Symphony, which opens with one years, and Fifth Symphony, which we will perform on.

The Sixth Symphony, of course, is something that his own brother, Modest, called that.

He wrote a requiem to himself.

What is important to me is the meaning of the Sixth Symphony, and particularly the end of its last moment, which is traditionally believed to be an acceptance of death and resignation in front of it.

And I don't believe that to be the case.

I think the indications in the score proof otherwise it is not acceptance.

It is a protest against the music of Tchaikovsky.

What is on the surface of beautiful melodies?

But what is the depth of it is tremendous sophistication of writing, harmonic arrhythmic, not only melodic way keep discovering in them so much more about us than ourselves.