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One of the Ancients
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Tchaikovsky's op. 32 is a tempest of infernal dimensions, evoking the torments of a love contorted by the world. It is one of the finest works in his ouevre, grand in scale and precise in orchestration. Bearing the form of an enormous scherzo, the themes are coherent and well interconnected, without incumbent redundance. Perhaps underrated, the public has not come to adore Francesca_da_Rimini with the same fervor as with Romeo_and_Juliet (certainly its motifs are less familiar to the general audience). Tinged with a tragic heroism, whirling fury and pervasive torment, Francesca_da_Rimini is a unity of the profound and the subtle, a shrine of a mortal heart's pain, wrought in gold standing on a plain of fire.
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