Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet (Final version) (with Score)

Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, Overture-Fantasia (Final version), TH 42, ČW 39 (with Score) Composed: 1869, revised 1880 Conductor: Theodore Kuchar Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine 00:05 Andante non tanto quasi Moderato 05:45 Allegro giusto 07:51 (“Love theme“) 11:03 (Theme of the warring Capulets and Montagues) 14:22 (“Love theme“) 17:32 Moderato assai Romeo and Juliet, TH 42, ČW 39, is an orchestral work composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is styled an Overture-Fantasy, and is based on Shakespeare’s play of the same name. In 1869 Tchaikovsky was a 28-year-old professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Having written his first symphony and an opera, he next composed a symphonic poem entitled Fatum. Initially pleased with the piece when Nikolai Rubinstein conducted it in Moscow, Tchaikovsky dedicated it to Balakirev and sent it to him to conduct in St. Petersburg. Fatum received only a lukewarm