Credo.(Cmitri Hvorostovsky, St. Petersburg Chamber Choir, Nikolai Korniev)

National Review | August 11, 1997| | Copyright

Mr. Toledano is the author of Frontiers of Jazz and many other books.

PETER Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- as composer of the Pathetique and, of the bravura 1812 Overture, with its pomp, patriotism, and pounding cannon -- represents to many the sometimes overblown Romantic movement in nineteenth-century Russia. But there is much more to his music -- reflecting as it does his inner torments, his conflicts over his homosexuality which led him into an impossible marriage, and his yearning search for God and the transcendent. This last meant much more to him than the critics reckon. ...

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