Edward Gardner conducts Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 — With the Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Edward Gardner, who has drawn widespread acclaim since taking the reins of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2021, hops across the pond to lead an equally accomplished American outfit, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, in one of the most emotionally expansive works of Russian Romanticism! The vivid program notes that Tchaikovsky wrote about his Symphony No. 4 in F Minor may have had more impact on the symphony's reception than he had intended, but whether you listen for "all life [as] an unbroken alternation of hard reality with swiftly passing dreams and visions of happiness" or simply lose yourself in the portentous motifs, grand washes of orchestral color, and irrepressible triumph of the final movement, you're in great hands for one of the 19th century's most captivating symphonic journeys.